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New and improved tomato analyzer

New and improved tomato analyzer

Biology / Other

created May 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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," ...


Color test enhances tomato analyzer software

Biology /

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When it comes to fresh vegetables and fruits, color is one of the best indicators of quality. Along with texture, size, and flavor, color plays an important role in the business of horticultural crop production and marketing.





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Dehydrated tomatoes show promise for preventing prostate cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 29, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

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 ...


Humans don’t get all the benefit from raw tomatoes

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Eating a raw tomato may not be the best way to release all its healthy antioxidants into the body.


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Can Nanotubes Help Your Garden Grow?

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (12) | comments 8

(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 ...


Can tomatoes carry the cure for Alzheimer's?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 08, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (15) | comments 0

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 ...


Expert to provide update after 'worst tomato virus' hits California

Biology /

created Jul 19, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Robert Gilbertson, plant pathology professor at the University of California, Davis, will provide the update on the status of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) after it was found for the first time in California. The ...


A big bunch of tomatoes?

Biology /

created Nov 18, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Why do poppies and sunflowers grow as a single flower per stalk while each stem of a tomato plant has several branches, each carrying flowers? In a new study, published in this week's issue of the open access journal PLoS Bi ...


Red alert! How disease disables tomato plant's 'intruder alarm'

Biology /

created Dec 04, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

How a bacterium overcomes a tomato plant's defences and causes disease, by sneakily disabling the plant's intruder detection systems, is revealed in new research out today (4 December) in Current Biology.


New discoveries upend traditional thinking about how plants make certain compounds

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Michigan State University plant scientists have identified two new genes and two new enzymes in tomato plants; those findings led them to discover that the plants were making monoterpenes, compounds that help give tomato ...


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Graduate student discovers, names bacterium linked to psyllid yellows

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created Aug 12, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

To make a discovery and get to name it is just about every scientist's dream. For one graduate student at UC Riverside that dream already has come true.


Biodegradeable Mulch Films

Biodegradable mulch films on the horizon

Biology /

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In 1999, more than 30 million acres of agricultural land worldwide were covered with plastic mulch, and those numbers have been increasing significantly since then. With the recent trend toward "going green", ...



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