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Old December 24, 2019   #1
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Default New gene-edited tomato is super short

I saw this over at phys.org
https://phys.org/news/2019-12-tomato...ens-outer.html
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Old December 24, 2019   #2
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Interesting... but I think I'll stick with dwarfs even if these were to hit the market. I think they would become a great novelty variety, and maybe even introduce a whole new group of people to growing tomatoes.
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Old December 24, 2019   #3
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I'd give them a shot.
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Old December 25, 2019   #4
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It will be interesting to see what comes of this project. Thanks for posting it.
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