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Old December 29, 2012   #42
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Arcadia BioSciences in Davis, CA has had a TILLING program on tomatoes for several years. They recently announced they had generated novel mutants in one or more of the delayed ripening regulatory genes (e.g. rin/nor), that are improvements over the current mutant alleles used by breeders.

http://www.arcadiabio.com/extendedshelflife

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