{"id":2698,"date":"2014-08-05T21:43:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T02:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2014-08-05T21:43:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T02:43:11","slug":"lighting-the-way-for-more-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/lighting-the-way-for-more-tomatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighting the way for more tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers have found a gene in a wild species of tomato that allows the plant to tolerate continuous light, potentially leading to a 20% yield increase in commercial varieties. One of the major limitations for crop productivity is the amount of light available each day but cultivated tomato plants often develop damaging leaf injuries when put under artificial light for too long, more than 16 hours a day. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ncomms\/2014\/140805\/ncomms5549\/full\/ncomms5549.html\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0published in\u00a0the journal\u00a0<em>Nature Communications\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August 5, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><span><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Aaron Velez-Ramirez, Wageningen University, Netherlands<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have found a gene in a wild species of tomato that allows the plant to tolerate continuous light, potentially leading to a 20% yield increase in commercial varieties. One of the major limitations for crop productivity is the amount of light available each day but cultivated tomato plants often develop damaging leaf injuries when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[101,1274,917,909,1618],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-agriculture","tag-dna","tag-evolution","tag-genetics","tag-plants"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Hw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2699,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions\/2699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}