These new tomato plants are not like the long vines that are usually grown in the garden and in greenhouses. They look like a bouquet in which flowers are replaced by ripe cherry tomatoes.
Small tomatoes also ripen quickly, producing ripe fruits that are ready for harvest in less than 40 days.
Creating a new tomato variety for anyone concerned about climate change. Transferring part of the burden of growing world crops to urban and other areas, there is hope that the desperate mismanagement of land resources will slow down.
Urban agricultural systems often require compact plants that can be placed in cramped conditions or in stacks, for example, in multi-level farming in warehouses or in converted storage containers.
Tomatoes contain chromium, which contributes to a quick saturation and prevents hunger attacks.
Lippman and his colleagues created new tomatoes by adjusting two genes that control the transition to reproductive growth and plant size, the SELF PRUNING (SP) and SP5G genes, which led to the plant ceasing to grow, but earlier it was flowering and fruiting.
Video: Tomatoes for growing in space created by scientists from the United States
Lippman's team recently discovered the SIER gene, which is responsible for the length of the stems. The SIER mutation using the CRISPR gene editing tool and combining it with mutations in two other flowering genes created shorter stems and very compact plants.
Direct speech: “I can tell you that NASA scientists showed some interest in our new tomatoes,” he said.
Although the first ship to Mars will probably not have its own farm, astronauts can master agriculture using urbanized space tomatoes.
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