http://nutritionwonderland.com An in-depth guide to the world of nutrition Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:58:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://nutritionwonderland.com/wp-content/themes/nw_theme/images/NW_Logo_v2.0_144x56px.jpghttp://nutritionwonderland.com400156Nutrition Wonderland is an in-depth guide to the world of nutrition. http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/01/cbs-early-show-purple-tomatoes/ http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/01/cbs-early-show-purple-tomatoes/#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:08:33 +0000 John Serrao http://nutritionwonderland.com/?p=84 http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/01/cbs-early-show-purple-tomatoes/feed/ 0 http://nutritionwonderland.com/2008/11/purple_tomatoes/ http://nutritionwonderland.com/2008/11/purple_tomatoes/#comments Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:26:15 +0000 John Serrao http://www.nutritionwonderland.com/?p=35 Researchers at John Innes Centre in the UK have used successfully created a purple tomato by using genes from the common snapdragon flowering plant. Tomatoes natively possess the genes required to make themselves purple but normally these genes lie dormant. By inserting borrowed genes from the snapdragon plant, the researchers engineered the tomato to activate the usually dormant genes. The tomato plant was designed intelligently with promoter sections of DNA inserted in front of the snapdragon genes, so that the tomato plant would only turn its ripening fruits purple and not its leaves.

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