{"id":100065,"date":"2019-12-23T11:43:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T19:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/scientists-gene-edited-tomatoes-to-make-them-grow-like-grapes"},"modified":"2019-12-23T11:43:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T19:43:24","slug":"scientists-gene-edited-tomatoes-to-make-them-grow-like-grapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/scientists-gene-edited-tomatoes-to-make-them-grow-like-grapes","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Gene-Edited Tomatoes to Make Them Grow Like Grapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-gene-edited-tomatoes-to-make-them-grow-like-grapes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 2050, and you\u2019ve just arrived on Mars. Your first meal awaits: a plate of spaghetti marinara made from <em>fresh<\/em> vine-ripened tomatoes. Tough to imagine, right?<\/p>\n<p>The idea that astronauts might enjoy the fresh, cherry-red fruits has seemed borderline absurd. Tomato plants, with their sprawling vines and bulbous fruits, take up space\u2014valuable space. And they\u2019re <em>extremely<\/em> finicky.<\/p>\n<p>But now, scientists have developed a way to genetically modify cherry tomatoes so they grow in tighter bunches and take up less space. This could be a game changer as the push to grow vertical, rooftop gardens increases and as humanity stretches out past low-Earth orbit toward the moon, and eventually, Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s 2050, and you\u2019ve just arrived on Mars. Your first meal awaits: a plate of spaghetti marinara made from fresh vine-ripened tomatoes. Tough to imagine, right? The idea that astronauts might enjoy the fresh, cherry-red fruits has seemed borderline absurd. Tomato plants, with their sprawling vines and bulbous fruits, take up space\u2014valuable space. And they\u2019re [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}