Tomatoes Show Their Good Traits/Cell, May 18, 2017 (Vol. 169, Issue 6)

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Food crops are often selected for traits that facilitate their growth and enhance productivity. In this video, Zachary Lippman explains why an ancient domestication tomato gene is hindering modern crop improvement and how understanding the way tomato genes interact with each other can help to overcome this barrier. Check out the paper at:  http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)30486-5.

Sebastian Soyk, Zachary H. Lemmon, Matan Oved, Josef Fisher, Katie L. Liberatore, Soon Ju Park, Anna Goren, Ke Jiang, Alexis Ramos, Esther van der Knaap, Joyce Van Eck, Dani Zamir, Yuval Eshed, and Zachary B. Lippman, (2017). Bypassing Negative Epistasis on Yield in Tomato Imposed by a Domestication Gene. Cell 

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