«This study demonstrated that greenhouse tomato fruit quality was unaffected by both the type of supplemental lighting as well as supplemental lighting per se,» the scientists said. (sciencedaily.com)
The finding is «a massive advance in our understanding of tomato fruit development and ripening,» says Alisdair Fernie, who studies the chemical composition of tomatoes at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam, Germany. (sciencemag.org)
In a new study published in HortTechnology, Ken Takahata and Hiroyuki Miura from Tokyo University of Agriculture reported on a prototypic method known as «basal wire coiling» that shows potential as a simple and effective method for increasing the sugar concentration in tomato fruit juice. (sciencedaily.com)