date:Aug 21, 2017
hesis in edible plants that do not normally make these pigments.
The success announced itself in living color. The researchers produced potatoes, tomatoes and eggplants with red-violet flesh and skin. They also managed to control the exact location of betalain production by, for example, causing the pigment to be made only in the fruit of the tomato plant but not in the leaves or stem.
Using the same approach, the scientists caused white petunias to produce pale violet flowers, and tobacco pla