date:Nov 14, 2017
than in a conventional tomato.
Provitamin A, a pigment that provides the orange, yellow and red hues in carrots, pumpkins and paprika, went up 169 percent. And lycopene, which gives tomatoes the bright red colour, rose 111 percent.
Early on, the team experimented with Indian mustard and found enzyme activity surged by changing the sequence of amino acids in a DNA. Members then introduced the DNA into tomatoes.
To look at, the new tomatoes do not appear different or bigger than others, but t