News tagged with cherry tomato
I, robot -- and gardener: MIT droids tend plants
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- These gardeners would have green thumbs - if they had thumbs.
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A dash of salt grows healthier tomatoes
Apr 28, 2008 |
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Watering tomatoes with diluted seawater can boost their content of disease-fighting antioxidants and may lead to healthier salads, appetizers, and other tomato-based foods, scientists in Italy report. Their ...
Extension has tomato-handling tips for consumers
Jun 24, 2008 |
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The discovery of Salmonella in certain tomato varieties has caused a series of food-poisoning outbreaks throughout the United States and put the media and the public's eye on food safety. Renee Boyer, consumer ...
Grocery Retailers Need Not Fear 'Cherry Pickers'
Sep 19, 2007 |
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"Extreme cherry pickers," grocery shoppers who buy only sale items and nothing else, do not harm retailer profits significantly as generally is believed, according to a forthcoming study in the Journal of ...
Dehydrated tomatoes show promise for preventing prostate cancer
May 29, 2008 |
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New research suggests that the form of tomato product one eats could be the key to unlocking its prostate cancer-fighting potential, according to a report in the June 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Associ ...
Briefs: Mold threatens Japanese cherry trees
Mar 20, 2006 |
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A contagious mold disease known as witches' broom is reportedly threatening Japan's emblematic "sakura" cherry trees.
Humans don’t get all the benefit from raw tomatoes
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Eating a raw tomato may not be the best way to release all its healthy antioxidants into the body.
Can Nanotubes Help Your Garden Grow?
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When we think of nanotubes, we often think of solar panels and physical science. However, it appears that nanotubes can also provide valuable help to plants as a fertilizer. Just add carbon ...
New and improved tomato analyzer
May 04, 2009 |
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Tomatoes come in a variety of sizes and shapes, making them the perfect subject to test shape-analyzing software. The Tomato Analyzer is "rapidly becoming the standard for fruit morphological characterizations," ...
MRI/PET scanner combo
Mar 07, 2008 |
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Two kinds of body imaging -- positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) -- have been combined for the first time in a single scanner.
Can tomatoes carry the cure for Alzheimer's?
Jul 08, 2008 |
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The humble tomato could be a suitable carrier for an oral vaccine against Alzheimer's disease, according to HyunSoon Kim from the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) in Korea and colleagues from ...
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