番茄在全世界每年的产量超过1.86亿吨，是极具价值的园艺作物。和其他作物一样，番茄也是通过选择反映出人类偏好的特征（如果实大小）而驯化的。如今，栽培番茄比野生祖先大100倍，这有助于增加每棵植株的产量。 但大果子也是有代价的：通常， 果实越大，糖分比例越低，而糖分正是自家种植番茄的经典“番茄味儿”的来源。 相比之下，超市番茄“淡得跟水一样”，研究共同作者、 中国农业科学院 的张金喆说，“它们没味道 ...

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利用CRISPR–Cas9基因编辑技术，研究者关闭了这两个基因，发现这些植物结出的果实比广泛栽培的品种甜得多。 加州大学戴维斯分校的退休植物生物 ...

The next generation of genetically altered food is forging ahead, aiming to be attractive to consumers rather than producers.

Because they don’t have the option of domesticating the groundcherry over thousands of years of selective breeding, as agriculturists did with tomato plants, the researchers are using CRISPR-Cas9 gene ...

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