Tomato
The tomato is a plant whose fruit is an edible berry that is eaten as a vegetable. The tomato is a member of the nightshade family that includes tobacco, potato, and chili peppers. It originated from western South America, and may have been domesticated there, in Mexico, or in Central America. The Spanish introduced tomatoes to Eurasia in the Columbian exchange in the 16th century.
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Grafted tomatoes pass salt-stress resistance to their offspring for...
It suggests that simply grafting your tomato plants onto hardy rootstock could give their offspri...
A tomato telomere-to-telomere super-pangenome empowers stress resil...
Tomatoes you buy at the grocery store have lost much of their natural toughness over decades of b...
Dying plants emit sounds that reveal species and predict collapse t...
Sensors that 'listen' to your tomatoes or wheat could one day alert farmers and gardeners to wate...
Cold-induced peptide signalling secures pollen resilience and crop yield.
Every spring cold snap that catches your tomato plants mid-bloom isn't just bad luck — it's trigg...
Conserved and divergent gene regulatory networks for crop drought r...
Wheat, rice, and corn — the crops that make up most of your daily meals — could be engineered to ...
Bacterial soil vapors prime crops to survive drought for months
Gardeners cultivating biologically active soil may be giving their drought-stressed plants a hidd...
A common soil fungus grew tomatoes 23% more over two seasons
A simple, one-time soil treatment could let home gardeners and farmers grow significantly more to...
Marigolds planted beside tomatoes cut root pests and boost yields
It means you can protect your homegrown tomatoes from invisible soil pests just by planting marig...
Biogenic iron oxide nanoparticles synthesized using Trichoderma spp...
Fusarium wilt can silently kill your tomato plants from the roots up, and these naturally-made pa...
Enhancing tomato fruit sweetness by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated SlVIF gene...
It could lead to naturally sweeter tomatoes in grocery stores and home gardens — no artificial fl...
The plasma membrane ABC transporter Sl-ABCB5 mediates acylsugar sec...
It brings us closer to tomatoes and other garden crops that naturally fend off insects on their o...
Biodegradable plastics still damage soil microbes and stunt plant growth
Compostable packaging and biodegradable mulch films breaking down in your garden beds may be quie...
Tandem MADS-Box Genes FUL2 and MADS1 Form a Regulatory Module to Re...
The tomatoes on your kitchen counter are quietly managing their own serotonin levels as they ripe...
Multimodal learning reveals plants' hidden sensory integration logic.
Understanding how plants 'listen' to helpful fungi could soon lead to crops that need fewer pesti...
Viral action on the auxin signaling repressor IAA16 reveals a conse...
Tomatoes, peppers, and squash in your garden are constantly battling viruses that secretly sabota...
A Modified Cas9 Scaffold Allows Extension of the Virus-Induced Gene...
Tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes you grow could soon be edited for disease resistance or better yi...
Genome editing‑based strategies to combat geminiviruses: CRISPR/Cas...
Geminiviruses, spread by whiteflies, routinely wipe out tomato, pepper, and bean harvests — and C...
Synergistic rhizobacteria enhance physio-biochemical resilience and...
A tablespoon of the right microbial mix stirred into your tomato transplant hole could be the dif...
Worm-composted rabbit manure and food scraps supercharge vegetable yields
If you've got a backyard compost bin and access to rabbit droppings, this study gives you an actu...
AVP1-mediated pyrophosphate homeostasis coordinates calcium-depende...
It points toward a way to engineer food crops — like tomatoes — that stay productive even when gr...
The SlWRKY75-SlASDAC Module Regulates Melatonin Levels to Modulate ...
Tomatoes grown with this melatonin-boosting gene edit produce more carotenoids (the pigments behi...
Multi-omics analysis of Raptor1A knockout reveals resistance to Tut...
Tomatoes in your garden could soon be bred to fight off one of their worst insect enemies on thei...
Biochemical and molecular regulation of tomato ripening and disease...
It could lead to tomatoes that stay fresh on your counter or in stores for much longer without go...
Primed responses to damage signals mediate mycorrhiza-induced resis...
If you've ever lost tomatoes or strawberries to gray mold, the solution may already be living in ...
Precision editing to improve fruit traits: CRISPR/Cas into the picture.
Strawberries, bananas, and tomatoes at your grocery store could soon be bred to resist disease an...
Dairy manure, glyphosate, and antimicrobials (copper, streptomycin,...
Tomatoes on your plate may have been grown in soil where routine farm sprays are quietly breeding...
Prosystemin-derived signals: bridging leaf microbiome dynamics and ...
It suggests that one day, instead of synthetic pesticides, gardeners and farmers might spray a na...
Optimization of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of commercial...
The heirloom tomatoes you grow from saved seed or find at the farmers market have never had the b...
Functional Conservation and Diversity of Phytochrome B and its Pote...
Tweaking how a plant senses light and heat could lead to tomatoes, rice, and wheat varieties that...
Autoactive MtDMI1 Reprogrammes Immunity and Development in Tomato v...
Tomatoes engineered with a tweak to their microbial-partnership genes could grow with stronger bu...
The improved auxin signalling via entire mutation enhances aluminiu...
Roughly half the world's arable land is too acidic for many crops, and this research points towar...
Plant growth-promoting bacteria enhance tomato tolerance against to...
It points toward a compost-based, chemical-free way to protect your tomato crop from one of the m...
FT florigen proteins in photoperiodic signaling: Conservation and d...
The potatoes on your plate and the tomatoes in your garden know when to flower and form tubers be...
Physiological and nutritional mechanisms underlying chloride-induce...
Gardeners and farmers struggling with dry summers may be able to use low-cost chloride-containing...
The F-box Containing Bacterial Effector RipG6 Destabilizes a Recept...
Bacterial wilt quietly kills tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes in home gardens and farms worldwide ...
Tomato leaf curl Palampur virus: an emerging begomovirus threatenin...
Tomatoes and cucumbers from South Asian farms are increasingly being wiped out by a whitefly-carr...
Tea gene helps tomato plants beat the heat
If a single borrowed tea gene can help a tomato plant shrug off heat stress and produce riper, mo...
Bioprospecting Cycas revoluta-associated bacterial endophytes for t...
If you've ever tried growing tomatoes in coastal, drought-affected, or heavily irrigated soil tha...
Desorption Electrospray Ionization-Mass Spectrometry Imaging Provid...
The same Phytophthora family that caused the Irish Potato Famine is still destroying tomato crops...
First report of a simple method of CRISPR/Cas13a-based rapid detect...
GBNV can devastate tomato, peanut, and bean crops that many gardeners and farmers rely on, and a ...
ORANGE: a tale of two pigments and two organelles.
When a tomato on your vine shifts from green to deep orange as it ripens, a single protein is cho...
Foliar application of citric acid alleviates lead toxicity and enha...
If citric acid — a cheap, food-safe compound — can protect vegetables grown in lead-contaminated ...
Multi-omics association analysis of the toxicity mechanism differen...
Manure-amended vegetable beds may carry invisible antibiotic residues that quietly suppress your ...
Exploring Agrivoltaics: A Pathway to Climate-Resilient and Producti...
Ginger and turmeric from your spice rack could soon be grown under solar panels, meaning the food...
Recent advances in generation of doubled haploid plants for genetic...
Faster, more precise plant breeding could soon bring you tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes that are...
Development of tomatoes with high sugar and GABA accumulation and p...
Tomato plants that fruit without bees during summer heat waves could keep your garden productive ...
Humic acid amendments recruit soil bacteria that free bound nutrien...
Cutting back on synthetic fertilizer in your vegetable garden doesn't have to mean smaller harves...
Cyanobacterial biostimulants boost tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)...
If you grow tomatoes through a hot, dry summer and watch them wilt no matter how carefully you wa...
A Truncated WRKY Protein Enhances Drought Resistance in Wild Tomato...
Wild tomatoes growing in arid hillsides already carry a built-in drought switch that breeders cou...
A synthetic guide RNA scaffold enhanced CRISPR/Cas9 editing efficie...
Tomatoes engineered to resist drought, rice bred to fight blight without pesticides, and vegetabl...
Super-resolution multimodal spatial transcriptomics reveals an ovoi...
Every cutting you press into damp soil is racing to rebuild an egg-shaped cellular command center...
Citrus greening disease is caused by an immune system overreaction
If you've noticed shrinking, bitter, misshapen citrus at the store or watched a backyard orange t...
One gene edit makes tomatoes tougher against virus and drought
If you've ever watched a tomato plant wilt in a summer dry spell or curl up with mosaic virus, th...
One gene switch controls potato's natural toxin production
The next time you leave a bag of potatoes near a sunny window and see them turn green, you're wat...
Magnesium oxide nanoparticles enhance tomato growth and magnesium u...
If your vegetable garden sits on acidic soil, the magnesium you add — whether Epsom salt or dolom...
A rapid Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated transient expression for ...
Faster gene-editing validation means plant scientists can more quickly breed tomatoes and other c...
Leaf-sprayed bacteria let tomatoes thrive on less fertilizer
If you've ever over-fertilized a tomato plant out of anxiety, this points to a future where a sim...
An integrated framework to elucidate mechanisms underlying host-bra...
Tomatoes in your garden or at a local farm market face a stealthy underground threat — a parasiti...
Identification of the Importin β gene family in tomato (Solanum lyc...
Tomato plants engineered without this gene wilted and struggled under dry conditions, pointing to...
Editing strigolactone biosynthesis genes in tomato reveals novel ph...
If you've ever grown tomatoes near fields plagued by broomrape — a rootless parasite that latches...
Tomatoes get sweeter when a sugar-export protein is switched off
The tomatoes ripening on your patio vines owe their sweetness to a tug-of-war inside their cells ...
Integrated plant and rhizosphere response to gadolinium exposure in...
Wastewater from hospitals and imaging centers carries gadolinium into irrigation water sources, a...
Exogenous microbial consortia modulate rhizosphere microbiome and y...
If you've ever grafted tomatoes onto disease-resistant rootstocks, the microbes you add to the so...
A comparative framework for trichome and trichome-derived epidermal...
Salt-tolerant wild plants have tiny surface structures that actively filter salt out of their tis...
Domestic wastewater supplementation enhances biomass, nutrient upta...
If you grow tomatoes, peppers, or herbs in containers or raised beds, this research points toward...
Stem bending reduces internode elongation and enhances stem diamete...
If you grow tomatoes indoors or in a greenhouse, bending the main stem is a free, no-chemical way...
Synergistic alleviation of salinity stress in tomato: unraveling th...
If you're growing tomatoes in raised beds amended with salty tap water or near coastal soils, the...
Drought priming and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria enhance So...
Watering your tomatoes on a graduated deficit schedule — intentionally letting them experience mi...
Selenium nanoparticles from <i>Dermacoccus abyssi</i> M...
If you've ever tried growing tomatoes near a coastal garden or in soil that's been irrigated for ...
Gene editing offers a faster path to tougher, climate-ready crops
The tomatoes and rice on your plate could soon come from plants engineered to survive the salty, ...
PSKR1-mediated phosphorylation of βCA2 activates its carbonic anhyd...
Tomatoes on your patio or in your garden suffer disproportionately when a heat wave hits during a...
Dialing down a common plant hormone makes cuttings root far more reliably
The cutting you stuck in water last spring that never rooted may have been sabotaged by its own h...
Multiplex gene editing enables the multibiofortification of essenti...
Tomatoes you grow from seed today are one gene-editing generation away from delivering meaningful...
A hidden gas switch controls tomato ripening and yield together
The tomatoes ripening too fast on your kitchen counter or in your garden bed are running on the s...
Decoding stage-specific symbiotic programs in the Rhizophagus irreg...
Every tomato you've ever grown had fungi threading through its roots, quietly ferrying phosphorus...
The antibacterial activity and plant growth-promoting potential of ...
Soil bacteria like this one could be the living amendment that finally lets vegetable gardeners b...
Deep convolutional models for robust multi-crop disease recognition...
If you grow tomatoes, potatoes, or grapes in your backyard and something starts going wrong with ...
Plants and Plant-Derived Compounds Mediate Protection Across Divers...
The sulforaphane in your garden broccoli and kale is now showing up in lab studies as a molecular...
The SlCBL-SlCML24 module mediates silicon-enhanced resistance to ba...
Sprinkling a silicon-rich soil amendment like diatomaceous earth around your tomato plants isn't ...
One gene edit gives tomatoes a simpler root and salt tolerance
If you've ever watered a tomato plant with municipal water high in salts or gardened near a coast...
Water-soluble tomato concentrate alleviates neuron apoptosis though...
Tomatoes growing in your backyard or on your windowsill contain compounds that scientists are now...
Tomato Early Blight and its Management in sub-Saharan Africa.
Tomatoes grown in backyard gardens and small farms across Africa are under threat from a fungal d...
Gene duo helps tomato plants shrug off cold snaps
If you've ever lost tomato seedlings to a late spring chill, this research points toward future v...
Tomato gene helps roots recruit helpful fungi for nutrients
The mycorrhizal fungi living in your garden soil right now are trading nutrients for sugar with y...
The Role of Two Glycoalkaloid Metabolism Genes in α-Tomatine Biosyn...
The gray mold that collapses your tomato plants by August has evolved its own molecular toolkit t...
SlABH15 Promotes Jasmonate-Mediated Lead Detoxification in Tomato: ...
Lead contamination lingers in soil for decades after old paint chips, leaded gasoline, or industr...
Plants sense fungal invaders and rush out a defense hormone
The gray mold that turns strawberries, tomatoes, and grapes fuzzy overnight is one of the most de...
Dual-Electrode Wearable Biosensors for In-Field MicroRNA Analysis i...
Imagine knowing your tomato plants are stressed by salt buildup days before the leaves start wilt...
Foundational characterization of tomato fruit RALF peptides reveals...
Understanding how tomatoes signal their own ripening at the molecular level opens a door to breed...
Plant Peptides on the Rise: From Historical Insight to Future Applications.
The tomato plant fending off caterpillars in your garden does it partly through peptide alarm sig...
Differential expression of long-noncoding RNAs under drought stress...
Every tomato you've ever grown from seed carries hidden drought-survival switches — and researche...
Resistance of Botrytis cinerea to anilinopyrimidine fungicides: A n...
Gray mold quietly destroys strawberry and tomato harvests — and the fungicide most growers spray ...
Bacterial blend gives tomato plants bigger, healthier harvests
The tomato plants wilting in your raised bed by midsummer might thrive with a microbial boost ins...
The SlASR4 Interaction with the Phloem Protein2 (SlPP2) regulating ...
Tomatoes are notoriously thirsty plants, and understanding how they can be bred to handle dry spe...
Tweaked tomato plants yield more fruit and resist stress better
The tomatoes ripening on your patio vine are limited by a built-in inefficiency in how plants rec...
Orange fungus extract shields tomato roots from damaging worms
If you've ever pulled up a wilting tomato plant to find lumpy, knotted roots, you've met root-kno...
Development of an Ultrahigh-Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tripl...
Every stress response your tomatoes show — wilting, yellowing, that sudden bolt to seed — is driv...
Fungicide sprays help drug-resistant bacteria spread inside tomato plants
The tomato plants you spray for blight in your backyard could be quietly breeding bacteria that s...
Gene editing can make crops survive drought and disease without foreign DNA
The olive groves and wheat fields that have shaped Mediterranean landscapes for millennia are now...
Salty soil makes bees pickier about which tomato plants to visit
If you grow tomatoes in soil with any salt buildup, from coastal gardens to over-fertilized beds,...
A common vitamin helps tomatoes fend off root-eating worms
If you've ever pulled up a tomato plant with lumpy, deformed roots and stunted growth, you've lik...
Mammalian growth factors enhance regeneration in transgenic tomato lines.
Heirloom and heritage tomato varieties — the ones with the best flavor but the worst disease resi...
One fly pollinates crops and eats pests at once
If you grow tomatoes, eggplant, or melons under any kind of cover, a single insect that both sets...
Engineering crop determinacy: CRISPR/Cas based advances in self-pru...
The bushy, vining tomato taking over your raised bed every August exists because of one ancient g...
CRISPR/Cas9-mediated disruption of the gamma carbonic anhydrase 2 g...
Tomato seedlings on your windowsill are racing to germinate before their stored energy runs out —...
Role of the tomato MARS1/ROUGH gene encoding a LYSINE-SPECIFIC HIST...
Tomato breeders working to create cuttings that root faster — or backyard gardeners frustrated by...
Tomato gene found that keeps leaves green in darkness
If you've ever wondered why some houseplants yellow fast in low light while others hang on, this ...
Solar panels over veggie crops could triple rural income
If you've ever wondered whether solar panels and food crops have to compete for the same land, th...
A genome sequence and efficient CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing tools for ...
Those tiny pale stipples appearing on the undersides of your tomato leaves in July are spider mit...
Charcoal and manure compost combo grows bigger tomatoes
If you've got a bag of leftover grill charcoal and a compost bin, this study suggests combining c...
Tweaking one receptor helps tomatoes survive the fridge better
The mealy, pitted tomatoes you sometimes find after they've sat in a cold grocery truck or your f...
sRNA_seq_clean_thrips_leafdiscs_timeseries
Thrips silently devastate tomatoes, peppers, and basil in home gardens before you notice the silv...
One protein family controls how fruit gets its color
The next time you watch a tomato turn red on the vine or an apple blush in the fall sun, a specif...
Fuzzy logic beats standard AI at spotting new tomato diseases
The tomato plants wilting or spotting in your backyard garden could someday get diagnosed by an a...
Tobacco plant compound reverses diabetes damage in mouse study
The waxy coating on tobacco and tomato leaves in your garden contains solanesol, a compound now s...
Tiny helper proteins could make crops tougher in a changing climate
The tomatoes ripening on your vine and the rice on your plate both depend on these microscopic pr...
One plant hormone shapes crop yield, quality, and nutrition together
The size and shape of the tomatoes, rice, and grains on your plate are steered by a single hormon...
Salty water shrinks tomato plants but fights off disease and boosts flavor
If you've ever wondered why tomatoes grown near the coast or with brackish well water sometimes t...
New method isolates plant DNA sections without genetic engineering
The grapevines and tomatoes growing in gardens and vineyards could benefit faster from disease-re...
Nutrient-based nanoparticles help crops survive heat better than others
If you grow tomatoes or peppers through a brutal summer, the same heat-stress biology this review...
One gene lets tomato plants bend their own branches
If you've ever staked a tomato plant to keep sprawling branches under control, this gene is part ...
Gene-edited tomatoes handle salty soil better and taste just as sweet
If you've ever dealt with salty or poor-quality soil in a garden bed near a driveway or coastline...
For tomato roots, one good bacterium can beat a crowd
If you've ever wondered why a soil inoculant worked wonders in one garden bed and did nothing in ...
sRNA_seq_clean_thrips_leafdiscs_timeseries
Thrips are the invisible enemy destroying tomato leaves in backyard gardens worldwide, and unders...
Tomato virus found infecting green onions near dump site
If you toss diseased tomato plants in your compost or a nearby ditch, this virus shows the pathog...
