plants and agriculture

Natural food colors. Photo: Prof. Assaf Aharoni's laboratory, Weizmann Institute

Color from nature

Genetically modified tomatoes produce betalains in the fruit, but not in the rest of the plant. Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

Tomato in beet skin: healthier, more durable, more purple

When the scientists broke the DNA in the gene responsible for creating the red pigment, lycopene, many tomato plants produced yellow fruits - and some of the fruits had yellow (mutant) and red (normal) segments. Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

What is red on the outside and delicious on the inside

2D model of the human protein 2LANCL (in green) which is not known to bind metals. In yellow - the amino acids from which, according to the algorithm, the binding site is composed. The template according to which the model of the XNUMXLANCL protein was built contains a zinc ion whose position is marked in blue

Following the metal