Light gene boosts tomato yields by a fifth

Tuesday, August 5, 2014 - 10:32 in Biology & Nature

Scientists on Tuesday said they had found a gene in wild tomatoes that enables farmed tomato plants to be grown 24 hours a day under natural and artificial light, boosting yields by up to 20 percent.

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