{"id":690473,"date":"2021-05-18T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=690473"},"modified":"2021-05-18T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T15:00:01","slug":"ability-to-alter-color-and-ripening-rates-of-tomatoes-provides-novel-opportunity-for-crop-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=690473","title":{"rendered":"Ability to alter color and ripening rates of tomatoes provides novel opportunity for crop improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Oxford&#8217;s Department of Plant Sciences have discovered how the overall process of fruit ripening in tomato (including color changes and softening) can be changed \u2013speeded up or slowed down\u2014by modifying the expression of a single protein located in subcellular organelles called the plastids.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-05-ability-ripening-tomatoes-opportunity-crop.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Ability to alter color and ripening rates of tomatoes provides novel opportunity for crop improvements<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Oxford&#8217;s Department of Plant Sciences have discovered how the overall process of fruit ripening in tomato (including color changes and softening) can be changed \u2013speeded&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}