Why Do Supermarket Tomatoes Taste Like Cardboard? (1 of 9) (IMAGE)

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Why Do Supermarket Tomatoes Taste Like Cardboard? (1 of 9)

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Patterns of ripe fruit pigmentation and associated nutrient quality are influenced by chloroplast accumulation profiles in unripe fruit and under the direction of the UNIFORM/SlGLK2 transcription factor. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the June 29, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Ann L.T. Powell at the University of California, Davis, in Davis, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "Uniform ripening Encodes a Golden 2-like Transcription Factor Regulating Tomato Fruit Chloroplast Development."

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[Image courtesy of S. Zhong and J. Giovannoni]

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