"Taking Tomatoes Back to Their Tasty Roots" on NPR

habitat_gardener · May 28, 2010

Did anyone else catch this story on the radio this morning? Harry Klee at Univ. of Fla. is trying to make a high-yield tomato that tastes like a tomato, using molecular biology to insert red currant genes into productive market tomatoes. He thinks he can do this by increasing the volatiles instead of the sugars/acids, and he's called on a psychology prof. to do taste tests to see what people like.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=126907678

May 28, 2010	#1
habitat_gardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: California Central Valley Posts: 2,543	"Taking Tomatoes Back to Their Tasty Roots" on NPR Did anyone else catch this story on the radio this morning? Harry Klee at Univ. of Fla. is trying to make a high-yield tomato that tastes like a tomato, using molecular biology to insert red currant genes into productive market tomatoes. He thinks he can do this by increasing the volatiles instead of the sugars/acids, and he's called on a psychology prof. to do taste tests to see what people like. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=126907678