THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 12, 2020 at 14:10 JST
Hiroshi Ezura, a professor of genetic engineering at the University of Tsukuba, with his genome edited tomato plant (Naoki Shoji)
The health ministry on Dec. 11 accepted the first case of a genome edited tomato being grown in Japan with about five times the gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) of normal produce. [Read More]
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