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Old January 26, 2017   #2
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There's a bit more information in this article about the research.
The authors concluded it would be easy to make commercial tomatoes tastier in a few years - but not sweeter, because apparently ?? the amount of sugar per tomato is directly linked to yield, and lower yield would not be acceptable.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/...em-sweet-again
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