{"id":108851,"date":"2020-06-18T18:45:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T01:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/tomatos-hidden-dna-mutations-revealed-in-genetic-study-of-100-varieties"},"modified":"2020-06-18T18:45:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T01:45:27","slug":"tomatos-hidden-dna-mutations-revealed-in-genetic-study-of-100-varieties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/tomatos-hidden-dna-mutations-revealed-in-genetic-study-of-100-varieties","title":{"rendered":"Tomato\u2019s Hidden DNA Mutations Revealed in Genetic Study of 100 Varieties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tomatos-hidden-dna-mutations-revealed-in-genetic-study-of-100-varieties.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Human appetites have transformed the tomato \u2014 DNA and all. After centuries of breeding, what was once a South American berry roughly the size of a pea now takes all sorts of shapes and sizes, from cherry-like to hefty heirloom fruit.<\/p>\n<p>Today, scientists are teasing out how these physical changes show up at the level of genes \u2014 work that could guide modern efforts to tweak the tomato, says Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Zachary Lippman.<\/p>\n<p>He and colleagues have now identified long-concealed hidden mutations within the genomes of 100 types of tomato, including an orange-berried wild plant from the Galapagos Islands and varieties typically processed into ketchup and sauce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human appetites have transformed the tomato \u2014 DNA and all. After centuries of breeding, what was once a South American berry roughly the size of a pea now takes all sorts of shapes and sizes, from cherry-like to hefty heirloom fruit. Today, scientists are teasing out how these physical changes show up at the level [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108851","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=108851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}