Rotten tomatoes no more: growing sweeter tomatoes is possible by editing just two of the fruit’s genes. Deleting the genes ...

Using CRISPR, the popular gene-editing tool, scientists bumped up the fruit’s sugar content by 30 percent without sacrificing ...

Selection for bigger tomatoes has made the fruits less sweet, but now it has been shown that gene editing can make them ...

They used CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology to “knock out” these genes in several tomato varieties. The results were ...

Today’s mass-produced tomatoes often grow to palm-sized proportions, but their naturally occurring ancestors were far smaller ...

By knocking out two specific genes using the CRISPR-Cas9 tool, the scientists achieved an increase in glucose and fructose ...

Tomatoes could be engineered to be sweeter without sacrificing their size, research suggests. Experts said that most ...

Chinese scientists have successfully modified tomatoes to make them sweeter by removing two genes that regulate sugar content ...

Glucose and fructose levels were 30 per cent higher after researchers removed two genes that regulate sugar content, according to study Chinese scientists have successfully modified tomatoes to make ...

Genetically editing sugar-regulating genes increases tomato sweetness, without affecting yield or size. The findings break a ...

The CRISPR molecular scissors have the potential to revolutionize the treatment of genetic diseases. This is because they can ...