A chemical genetic roadmap to improved tomato flavor

  • Denise Tieman
    Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 7, Pengfei Road, Dapeng District, Shenzhen 518124, China.
  • Guangtao Zhu
    Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 7, Pengfei Road, Dapeng District, Shenzhen 518124, China.
  • Marcio F. R. Resende
    RAPiD Genomics, 747 SW 2nd Avenue, Gainesville, FL 32601, USA.
  • Tao Lin
    Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 7, Pengfei Road, Dapeng District, Shenzhen 518124, China.
  • Cuong Nguyen
    Horticultural Sciences, Plant Innovation Center, University of Florida, Post Office Box 110690, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
  • Dawn Bies
    Horticultural Sciences, Plant Innovation Center, University of Florida, Post Office Box 110690, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
  • Jose Luis Rambla
    Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas–Universitat Politècnica de València), València, Spain.
  • Kristty Stephanie Ortiz Beltran
    Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas–Universitat Politècnica de València), València, Spain.
  • Mark Taylor
    Horticultural Sciences, Plant Innovation Center, University of Florida, Post Office Box 110690, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
  • Bo Zhang
    Horticultural Sciences, Plant Innovation Center, University of Florida, Post Office Box 110690, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
  • Hiroki Ikeda
    Horticultural Sciences, Plant Innovation Center, University of Florida, Post Office Box 110690, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
  • Zhongyuan Liu
    Horticultural Sciences, Plant Innovation Center, University of Florida, Post Office Box 110690, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
  • Josef Fisher
    Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel.
  • Itay Zemach
    Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel.
  • Antonio Monforte
    Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas–Universitat Politècnica de València), València, Spain.
  • Dani Zamir
    Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel.
  • Antonio Granell
    Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas–Universitat Politècnica de València), València, Spain.
  • Matias Kirst
    School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
  • Sanwen Huang
    Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 7, Pengfei Road, Dapeng District, Shenzhen 518124, China.
  • Harry Klee
    Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 7, Pengfei Road, Dapeng District, Shenzhen 518124, China.

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<jats:title>Looking for lost flavor in tomatoes</jats:title> <jats:p> Commercially available tomatoes are renowned these days for sturdiness, but perhaps not for flavor. Heirloom varieties, on the other hand, maintain the richer flavors and sweeter tomatoes of years past. Tieman <jats:italic>et al.</jats:italic> combined tasting panels with chemical and genomic analyses of nearly 400 varieties of tomatoes. They identified some of the flavorful components that have been lost over time. Identification of the genes that have also gone missing provides a path forward for reinstating flavor to commercially grown tomatoes. </jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> , this issue p. <jats:related-article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="doi" issue="6323" page="391" related-article-type="in-this-issue" vol="355" xlink:href="10.1126/science.aal1556">391</jats:related-article> </jats:p>

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  • Science

    Science 355 (6323), 391-394, 2017-01-27

    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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