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GORKY Protein Turns Bitter Tomatoes Sweet
29.04.2021
Genetics, Plants and Agriculture

A huge new database helps reveal tomato riddles and may facilitate the breeding of delicious, disease-resistant tomatoes

Beet-colored tomatoes
Rhapsody in Red Violet
14.08.2017
Biochemistry, Nutrition, Systems Biology, Plants and Agriculture

Pigments made by beets may help boost resistance to disease and the nutrition value of crops

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Give Me a Break: Chromosomal Breaks Facilitate Precise Breeding in Plants
04.07.2017
Life Sciences, Stem Cells, Genetics, Plants and Agriculture

Using the plant's own DNA repair mechanisms could help breeders select the traits they want

A section of a ripe tomato sample showing the distribution of sucrose (orange) in the flesh and of an antioxidant (green) in the fruit skin tissue; mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) technology was used to map the molecules
Wise Plant Analysis
30.11.2016
Plants and Agriculture, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Weizmann Institute’s WeizMass and MatchWeiz help identify plant metabolites

3) dormancy and 4) explosive growth
The Time-Bomb Fungus
16.11.2014
Plants and Agriculture

An up-to-date report on the war raging on the surface of your fruit

colorful roots
Getting to the Root of the Problem
15.09.2013
Biochemistry, Nutrition, Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics, Plants and Agriculture

Detailed profiles of hundreds of substances produced in different plant cell types can help improve crops – and our health

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The Pathway to Potato Poisons
31.07.2013
Molecular and Cell Biology, Plants and Agriculture

Revealing the gene network for producing the toxin in green potatoes may help improve crops
 

(l-r) Drs. Olga Davydov and Nardy Lampl, Prof. Robert Fluhr, Drs. Ofra Budai-Hadrian and Thomas Roberts. Secrets to growth
Keeping Pace with the World’s Food Demand
21.03.2011
Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Plants and Agriculture
Understanding plants’ survival systems could help reduce agricultural losses. ...
l-r) Dr. Asaph Aharoni, Dr. Ilana Rogachev, Tal Mendel and Dr. Avital Adato
Color It Pink
01.05.2010
Genetics, Plants and Agriculture

Pink tomato genes code for more than color.

 

The Pink Gene unravelled by Weizmann Institute scientists
The Pink Gene unravelled by Weizmann Institute scientists
14.01.2010
Plants and Agriculture

Weizmann Institute scientists unravel the genetic secrets of a pink tomato

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