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Originally Posted by travis
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I skimmed the paper but when it came to Fig #4 and the clads and didn't see tomato, I said what the heck and played some music vids as I always do before I go to bed, but then got a follow up e-mail sent home with Fred's posts and saw the second one referred to tomatoes and skimmed both of those as well.
Summary?
IMO it's all about gassing unripe tomatoes with ethylene as many places do in huge chambers, you know them already as the pale pink ones that are shipped up north from FL and Mexico and wherever, that many of us know as shipped in winter tomatoes , supermarket tomatoes, with no taste but sure are pretty and some varieties are gassable and others aren't.
Carolyn, big money in gassing unripe tomatoes, so grants probably made available to do genetic research on which varieties are the most gassable or to construct same.
