Melbourne: In what might be an answer to the increasing global population and ensuing food crisis, Australian scientists have claimed discovering a way to boost crop yields that can help improve productivity.
Newcastle University researchers said they have found that by knocking out a gene from the genetic code of a tomato plant, it grows sweeter fruit and has longer-lasting leaves.
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