Modern tomatoes can’t get same soil microbe boost as ancient ancestors Beneficial soil microbe Trichoderma harzianum helpswild-type tomato plants grow larger and improves their defense against disease ...

Tomatoland is based on Estabrook’s James Beard Award-winning 2010 article “ The Price of Tomatoes,” and is an in-depth investigation of what’s wrong with the modern tomato (and by extension, modern ...

Urban farming could be a big piece of that puzzle, but a lack of space to grow crops in America’s cities constantly daunts urban farmers. This new tomato—developed by researchers at Cold Spring Harbor ...

Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit by Barry Estabrook For Barry Estabrook, that perfectly round, perfectly red grocery-store tomato represents ...

They inserted that gene into modern tomato hybrid lines — a process known as introgression — and their results showed a 20 percent increase in production. If U.S. farmers could grow tomatoes that ...

John Kariuki Thiaka at his tomato farm in Karia, Kirinyaga central sub-county on. He quit his teaching job to concentrate on tomato farming and he is doing well. PHOTO: JOSEPH MUCHIRI/STANDARD ...

By breeding tomatoes to ripen evenly and harvest easier, growers unwittingly robbed those sumptuous ruby reds of their taste, scientists report.

Despite these challenges, tomato farmers in Nigeria exhibit resilience, buoyed by government interventions and grassroots initiatives. Training programs that impart modern farming techniques ...

Tomatoland is based on Estabrook’s James Beard Award-winning 2010 article “,” and is an in-depth investigation of what’s wrong with the modern tomato (and by extension, modern agriculture). It is ...