date:Nov 14, 2017
University of Hong Kong researchers have generated super tomatoes by boosting antioxidant properties through genetic engineering.
But they admit there is a long way to go before the tomatoes are ready for human consumption.
The university's School of Biological Sciences collaborated with the Institute Biologie Moleculaire des Plantes in France in the research that led to a way to increase significantly the amount of antioxidants.
The result with a tomato, had six times the amount of vitamin E