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    The USDA approved genetically modified purple tomatoes and will be sold on the shelves next year

    • Last Update: 2022-10-02
    • Source: Internet
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    According to reports, this purple tomato is called "big purple tomato", the taste is the same as ordinary red tomato, but contains high levels of anthocyanins
    .
    And this purple tomato has a longer shelf life, which can reach 2 times
    that of red tomatoes.
     
    Purple Tomatoes was developed by a team of scientists, including Cathie Martin, a biochemist at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK and project leader at
    the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK.
    Martin specializes in flower pigment research, and she studies the elevation of anthocyanins in tomatoes with funding from a German consortium in the hope of "improving the fruit's antioxidant capacity
    .
    "
     
    To grow purple tomatoes, the scientists used snapdragon's transcription factors to stimulate tomatoes to produce more anthocyanins
    .
    In 2008, Martin and colleagues published their first findings
    in Nature Biotechnology.
    Studies have shown that cancer-susceptible mice that eat purple tomatoes live about
    30 percent longer than mice that eat regular tomatoes.
     
    Martin has now founded Norfolk Plant Sciences (NPS) to bring purple tomatoes to market
    .
    A trial sale is expected in 2023 to test which consumers are more interested in
    purple tomatoes.
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