Researchers to boost tomato production efficiency for VF

Added on 03 June 2025

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Researchers to boost tomato production efficiency for VF

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A research team led by Prof. XU Cao from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Prof. CHEN Fan's team at Yazhouwan National Laboratory, has successfully engineered a tomato variety optimized for vertical farming, significantly enhancing production efficiency in plant factory systems.

Their findings, published on May 12 in the Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, demonstrate how the integration of Green Revolution gene homologs with anti-florigen genes via genome editing can address longstanding barriers to scaling vertical agriculture.