Reinventing the Tomato for Survival in a Changing World

A farmer believes that tomatoes survival depends on the plants diversity, this farmer is Brad Gates.  He encourages people to grow their own tomatoes at home.  Climate change is the reason why he is trying to grow new tomatoes because the crop is becoming threatened.  Gates believes that growing different types of tomatoes like cold-tolerant and heat-tolerant will help the tomato population.  I believe tat this is interesting because I did not know that this was going on or a problem with our food and crops. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/dining/tomatoes-climate-change.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fclimate&action=click&contentCollection=climate&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront



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  1. AnonymousMay 20, 2019 at 2:41 PM

    This is a good idea, but I am curious to see how he alters the plant to make it cold-tolerant and heat-tolerant.

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  2. AnonymousMay 21, 2019 at 9:19 AM

    I believe that this would be very helpful to the human population because tomatoes are in a lot of foods. There might be negative effects of these GMOs though.

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