Souplantation/Sweet Tomatoes Celebrates Milestone by Honoring 30 Most Remarkable Guests
SAN DIEGO, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Souplantation/Sweet Tomatoes is celebrating its 30th Anniversary in July with an essay contest to find and reward its most remarkable patrons. Guests are asked to draft a 200-word essay describing why they or someone they know is remarkable using a memorable ...Tainted Tomatoes Likely From Florida or Mexico: FDA
Officials say salmonella contamination probably came from one source FRIDAY, June 13 (HealthDay News) -- The bulk of the tomatoes available in the United States at the time of the recent -- and ongoing -- salmonella outbreak came from Florida and Mexico, U.S. health officials said Frid...Source of Contaminated Tomatoes Still Unknown: FDA
228 people in 23 states have been sickened in the ongoing salmonella outbreak FRIDAY, June 13 (HealthDay News) -- Even as the number of reported illnesses from salmonella-tainted tomatoes continued to climb, U.S. health officials were still grappling to find the source of the contamina...Big Boy Restaurants Removes Tomatoes from its Menu in Compliance with the FDA Recall
WARREN, Mich., June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Due to a nationwide tomato alert issued by the Food and Drug Administration, Big Boy Restaurants International LLC has ceased serving tomatoes at all of its Big Boy restaurants until further notice. "We are committed to always serving the safest and fines...The Glazier Group Removes Tomatoes from Menus Nationwide
Nationally Recognized Hospitality Group Reacts to FDA Warnings NEW YORK, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Glazier Group, a Manhattan-based hospitality group best known for Strip House properties across the country and in Puerto Rico, has taken a preemptive strike in response to the FDA's warni...Consumers Urged to Avoid Certain Tomatoes Amid Salmonella Scare
Restaurants, markets stop offering some products after 163 sickened in 17 states, CDC reports TUESDAY, June 10 (HealthDay News) -- To avoid the current outbreak of salmonella in tomatoes, consumers will need to employ a little detective work and forgo certain types of tomatoes for a wh...Dehydrated tomatoes show promise for preventing prostate cancer
PHILADELPHIA New research suggests that the form of tomato product one eats could be the key to unlocking its prostate cancer-fighting potential, according to a report in the June 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Processing of many edible ...Abuelo's Responds to CDC and FDA Warning on Certain Types of Raw Peppers and Tomatoes
LUBBOCK, Texas, July 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Abuelo's restaurants today released the following statement regarding the nationwide Salmonella outbreak that has been linked to consumption of certain raw jalapeno and Serrano peppers, and tomatoes. "Based on the recommendation of the Centers for Dise...Ultra-High Pressure Processing Eliminates Salmonella in Fresh Tomatoes
-US leader in Food Processing Technology offers insight to fresh food safety- FORT WORTH, Texas, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Recent Salmonella contamination in fresh tomatoes has resulted in a nationwide concern for consumers unfamiliar with food-safe processing tec...Fighting a Fungus That Thrives on Tomatoes
Scientists find disease-resistant gene wards off fusarium wilt on leaves FRIDAY, May 9 (HealthDay News) -- A molecular-based approach to helping tomatoes fight a fungus that causes wilt has been identified by Dutch scientists. In agriculture, there's an ongoing battle against the ab...Heart Disease Treatment Breakthrough
...ase related illnesses that can cause heart attacks and stroke. Dozens of research studies have shown that lycopene - found in the skins of ripe tomatoes - has the capacity to significantly reduce the build up of plaque in the arteries that can lead to heart attacks and stroke. Lycopene is the po...Can tomatoes carry the cure for Alzheimer's?
The humble tomato could be a suitable carrier for an oral vaccine against Alzheimer's disease, according to HyunSoon Kim from the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) in Korea and colleagues from Digital Biotech Inc. and the Department of Biological Science at Wonkwang ...Certain form of tomatoes could be key to prostate cancer prevention
COLUMBIA, Mo. New cancer research from the University of Missouri suggests that eating a certain form of tomato product could be the key to unlocking the prostate cancer-fighting potential of the tomato. The positive effect of tomato products has been suggested in many studies, but, until now, re...Scientists genetically engineer tomatoes with enhanced folate content
Leafy greens and beans aren't the only foods that pack a punch of folate, the vitamin essential for a healthy start to pregnancy. Researchers now have used genetic engineering--manipulating an organism's genes--to make tomatoes with a full day's worth of the nutrient in a single serving. The scie...Unique tomatoes tops in disease-fighting antioxidants
Deep red tomatoes get their rich color from lycopene, a disease-fighting antioxidant. A new study, however, suggests that a special variety of orange-colored tomatoes provide a different form of lycopene, one that our bodies may more readily use. Researchers found that eating spaghetti covered in...Tastier tomatoes in the future?
Tomatoes are good for you. They strengthen the immune system and can prevent heart and circulatory disease. Now, researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, in co-operation with Israeli scientists, have identified DNA fragments in tomatoes that make their contents both ...Anyway you slice it, tomatoes cut through drought with new gene
New tomato research has its roots in yielding more food to feed more people, according to Dr. Kendal Hirschi about results announced today. His team's study appears in today's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The team made tomato plants over-express the gene, AVP1, which...New national genome center launched
... of some cancers. Better understanding of the genetic mechanisms underlying the synthesis of these compounds could allow the breeding of, for example, tomatoes with higher amounts of antioxidants. The sequencing of these and other genomes will create a huge amount of data. The successful handling and i...2009 ASPB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship award announcement
...outcrossing population, and possible genes involved. I can't wait to get my tomatoes out in the field and start my crosses! Liza Smith, University of Wollon...tate University Mentor: David Puthoff The Transformation of Micro-Tom tomatoes with Hessian Fly Responsive Genes Through my application for the SURF gra...Pest management specialist Charles Summers wins prestigious Woodworth Award
... He is also known for his research on reflective mulches, used to delay and reduce aphid and whitefly infestations on squash, pumpkins, cucumbers and tomatoes and other crops. He teams with plant pathologist Jim Stapleton and vegetable crop specialist Jeff Mitchell, both based at Kearney. "In the mid-1990...DNA duplication: A mechanism for 'survival of the fittest'
... have been working as bioinformatics specialists to decode various plant genomes - the complete content of a plant's DNA - ranging from small weeds to tomatoes and rice to trees. Time and again, they have been confronted with the fact that, over the course of the history of these plants, their entire DNA was ...Kiwa Fertilizers Pass Independent Tests
...se two fertilizer products show that: -- Pen Duo Shou can increase the number of tomato fruits per plant as well as the net weight of single tomatoes and thereby provides a better yield. -- Jin Peng Jia Bao can increase the number of cotton balls on individual plants as well as the net ...Technology isn't about technology
... collapse of the Soviet Union was built by a Wisconsin businessman. He reported astonishment at the conditions in which he had to work. Lettuce and tomatoes were substandard so he had to buy a farm to grow vegetables. The same was true of beef. Materials for building were in such short supply that they had...