High-yield, heat tolerant tomatoes

by | Oct 22, 2019 | Frick, Elizabeth, Strader, Lucia

— Technology Description

Researchers in Prof. Lucia Strader’s laboratory have cultivated genetically-stable, high-yield tomato plants that are tolerant to high temperature growing conditions (40oC). These plants were identified using a screen for mutants. Excitingly, two mutants (IR-12 an IR-1…