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Scientists Crack Tomato Genome

Which should allow producers to breed tastier ones

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted May 31, 2012 9:10 AM CDT

(Newser) – What makes a tomato a tomato? Researchers now know all 35,000 genes that make up the answer to that question, Reuters reports. An international team of scientists has fully mapped the order, orientation, types, and relative position of all those genes inside both a...   Read full story »

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