Scientific Article about Fruit size

rjs55555 · June 19, 2015

I came across an article that may be interesting to some of you regarding fruit size and how it is regulated in tomato plants.

Here is the link:
http://www.cshl.edu/news-and-features/scientists-pinpoint-genes-that-make-stem-cells-in-plants-revealing-origin-of-beefsteak-tomatoes.html

bower · June 19, 2015

Cool stuff... thanks for posting it!

salix · June 20, 2015

Interesting, thank you for posting the link rjs.

**carolyn137** · June 20, 2015

Good Grief, It's Zach Lippman doing that research and now an Associate professor? How time flies.

I've known Zach for a very long time. After he got his Ph.D he did a post doc in Israel working with Dani Zimir, I think that's the right spelling, and Zach asked if I could send him seeds for 1000 different tomato varieties for the project he was going to work on.

Soooo, between Glenn Drowns, Craig LeHoullier and myself, we cross referenced what we might send, came up with the 1000 requested by him and sent them.

I knew that when he and his wife/kids moved back to the US he went to Cold Spring Harbor and I keep meaning to catch up with him, but haven't yet.

When I saw the thread title I thought it might be that older article in Scientific American about the evolution of tomatoes based on one locule to many locules as in upsizing fruits by multiple natural mutations as time progressed.

But I was pleasandtly surprised to see it was about Zach's work, who once commented just before he left israel that he was glad to be going back to the US b'c the pizza in Israel was lousy.

Carolyn

Jeanus · June 20, 2015

Good article thanks

rjs55555 · June 20, 2015

I am glad I came across this to post.

I love science and genetics and have crossed leopard gecko's years ago and crossed a few daylilies to make a few of my own. I was excited to get my first yellow tomato microdwarf the other day from a Red Robin x Naturesweet Sunburst cross that I had made last year. I also just finished fermenting seeds from a Red Robin x Black Cherry cross from last year as well. Hopefully I find a black micro in the first few sets of seeds that I get. I got 64 seeds from the first tomato and have 2 more tomatoes fermenting out now.

My wife thinks I am nuts, but I love this kind of stuff!

Cole_Robbie · June 20, 2015

That is a great idea to breed for a black micro cherry. I would love to have a micro variety of every color.

June 19, 2015	#1
rjs55555 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 42	Scientific Article about Fruit size I came across an article that may be interesting to some of you regarding fruit size and how it is regulated in tomato plants. Here is the link: http://www.cshl.edu/news-and-features/scientists-pinpoint-genes-that-make-stem-cells-in-plants-revealing-origin-of-beefsteak-tomatoes.html

June 20, 2015	#3
salix Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: north central B.C. Posts: 2,310	Interesting, thank you for posting the link rjs. __________________ "He who has a library and a garden wants for nothing." -Cicero

June 20, 2015	#4
carolyn137 Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a Posts: 21,169	Good Grief, It's Zach Lippman doing that research and now an Associate professor? How time flies. I've known Zach for a very long time. After he got his Ph.D he did a post doc in Israel working with Dani Zimir, I think that's the right spelling, and Zach asked if I could send him seeds for 1000 different tomato varieties for the project he was going to work on. Soooo, between Glenn Drowns, Craig LeHoullier and myself, we cross referenced what we might send, came up with the 1000 requested by him and sent them. I knew that when he and his wife/kids moved back to the US he went to Cold Spring Harbor and I keep meaning to catch up with him, but haven't yet. When I saw the thread title I thought it might be that older article in Scientific American about the evolution of tomatoes based on one locule to many locules as in upsizing fruits by multiple natural mutations as time progressed. But I was pleasandtly surprised to see it was about Zach's work, who once commented just before he left israel that he was glad to be going back to the US b'c the pizza in Israel was lousy. Carolyn __________________ Carolyn

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bower Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 6,794	Cool stuff... thanks for posting it!

June 20, 2015	#5
Jeanus Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Tennessee Posts: 80	Good article thanks

June 20, 2015	#7
Cole_Robbie Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Illinois, zone 6 Posts: 8,407	That is a great idea to breed for a black micro cherry. I would love to have a micro variety of every color.