Nchifukwa chiyani tomato akuwoneka kuti ataya kukoma kwake? Chifukwa chiyani zakudya zina zimafuna ketchup pophika ndi tomato? Awa ndi ena mwa mafunso omwe Qian Feng, wazaka zachiwiri za udokotala pa University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, akufuna kuyankha kudzera mu kafukufuku wake.
Feng, membala wa labu ya Biology ya Pulofesa Esther van der Knaap ku UGA Institute of zomera, genetics, and genomics, anakulira ku China, wopanga wamkulu wa tomato. Zakudya zambiri zaku China zimaphatikizanso tomato monga chopangira chachikulu, koma Feng adazindikira zomwe zimasokoneza.
"Nthawi zambiri, banja langa limayenera kuwonjezera zokometsera zambiri kuti zibweretse kukoma kwa 'phwetekere'," Feng adalongosola.
Posakhutitsidwa ndi kakomedwe kakang'ono, Feng adayamba kufufuza mbiri yakale ya phwetekere kuti adziwe zomwe zingafotokoze kutayika kwa kukoma kwake. Anapeza kuti kudzera mu kuswana kosankha kuti awonjezere kukula ndi chipolopolo choteteza kunja - kuwonjezera pa kuswana mitundu ya tomato yosamva matenda - alimi ndi opanga adapanga kukoma kocheperako komanso phwetekere wopanda thanzi.
Chinsinsi cha kuyeza ndi kuonjezera kukoma kwa phwetekere chagona mu chemistry yake, makamaka kuchuluka ndi mtundu wa mankhwala, kapena kusinthasintha, komwe kuli mu chakudya. "Kuti tigwirizanitse zosinthika zosiyanasiyana ndi zomwe ogula amakonda, sitingadalire mtengo woyezedwa. Tiyenera kukhala ndi gulu la kukoma kuti malingaliro aumunthu azitha kuganiziridwa, "adatero Feng.
Pogwiritsa ntchito kafukufuku wochokera kwa a Denise Tieman ndi Harry Klee a ku yunivesite ya Florida, omwe atha zaka zambiri akusonkhanitsa deta yosasinthika pamodzi ndi kuwunika kwa mitundu yoposa 100 ya phwetekere, Feng adatha kujambula majini owonjezera omwe amachititsa kuti asasunthike kuti apereke zambiri. chithunzi cha biochemical njira mu tomato.
Ngakhale kuti kafukufuku wowonjezereka mu labu la van der Knaap sadzayang'ana pa kuswana kosankha kuti achulukitse kuchuluka kwa kusakhazikika kwa tomato, Feng akuyembekeza kuti zotsatira zake zitha kugwiritsidwa ntchito ndi ma lab ena obereketsa ndi malo kuti adziwitse majini ofunikira mu mitundu yamakono kapena yatsopano ya phwetekere. .
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