ARS researchers are breeding new lines of tomatoes to counter the damaging anthracnose disease, a bruising fruit rot pathogen.
Though he’s farmed much in in California, David Yrigoyen found a niche with transplanting tomato plant as the most profitable part of his business.
Researchers have used tools that regulate gene expression in order to produce tomato plants that are resistant to the spotted wilt virus (TSWV).
Consumers should prepare to pay more for tomatoes since the Dept. of Commerce terminated the 2013 Suspension Agreement on Fresh Tomatoes from Mexico.
Just how much produce is the agricultural industry leaving in the fields post harvest? The World Wildlife Fund dove into food loss numbers in their recent report, “No Food Left Behind: Underutilized Produce Ripe for Alternative Markets.” The report examines four crops during the 2017-2018 growing season at a set of farms in Florida, New […]
Wendy’s has announced a new initiative to source vine-ripened tomatoes for its North American restaurants exclusively from greenhouse farms by early 2019. Tomatoes for Wendy’s will be grown in indoor greenhouse and hydroponic farms from approximately a dozen suppliers throughout North America, including the West Coast, Pacific Northwest, Southeast, and Great Lakes regions of the […]
Why can farmers grow big, juicy tomatoes? Its all due to a mutation in the Cell Size Regulator gene that occurred during the tomato domestication process. Esther van der Knaap of the University of Georgia, Athens, and colleagues describe this gene variant in a study published in open-access journal PLOS Genetics on August 17. When […]
As hard as we fight against plant pathogens, we have to be aware that those pathogens are doing what they can to fight us. One such microbe, Ralstonia solanacearum, enters roots through wounds or natural openings and chokes off the water-transport system of a plant. The result is that the plant — commonly tobacco, tomatoes, and […]