Tomatoes With Hints of Lemon & Rose Please {The 5th Sense in the News}
Israeli researchers have succeeded in incorporating aromas of lemon and rose into a new kind of GM tomato.
The transgenic tomato includes a gene from a variety of lemon basil, Ocimum basilicum, that produces an aroma-making enzyme called geraniol synthase, Efraim Lewinsohn of Newe Yaar Research Centre and colleagues report......
These tomatoes are also paler due to the 50% reduction of lycopene in them, considered to be an antioxidant with health benefits.
You know, you can always add a few edible rose petals or a dash of rose water and lemon juice into your salad if you want to experience the lemrosato before it makes it to your supermarket, if it ever gets there.
Photoshopped picture from worth1000.com
