Super Purple Tomatoes

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mattman

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Okay, In a bio seed plants class we had to review and write a journal about a new tomato plant that was super purple. Pretty much they took a gene from a bacteria that produced the same purple pigment and placed it in the gene of the tomato. Grew it out and fed it to two different sets of rats... the ones fed the purple tomato resisted cancer completely, while the others gained it at a significant rate. Both were placed under High UV light to induce cancer... the instructor had no idea where to obtain these things,

Anyone know?
 
sen.c

sen.c

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If it is a hybrid tomatoe you will have to get the seeds from the person who did the hybridization. I have an heirloom strain of what they call black pearl and the tomatoes are so deep purple they almost look black and taste great.
 
robert 14617

robert 14617

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my black kremlin tomatoes didn't make this year i put them out too late

most seed co. on line have strains of dark meat tomatoes, i think you'll find just like in the red wines the anti oxidants that help deter caner
 
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mattman

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I cant find the actual peer reviewed article, I JUST found the hard copy, but no copier..

heres a link http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1080695/Purple-super-tomato-fight-cancer.html

Pretty much they isolated a gene from a particular bacteria that produces Anthocyanin (can't believe I forgot that word) , anyways It produces a purple pigment. This gene was placed in the tomato and reproduced. Eating like two of these GREATLY decreases your chances of getting multiple types of cancers.
 
Jah Leon

Jah Leon

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Hi,

A little background before I get started.

Tomatoes
During a Horticulture breeding course, blue or purple tomatoes was brought up. Originally these tomatoes can be breed from the original land race of tomatoes that grow in Columbia. U.S. breeders and European breeders have been busy make stable hi-breds for the market as it has increase cancer fighting properties which is known for sometime now.

Uv-radiation
Currently did some experiments with experimental leds and found that uv-a increase phenotype dominance in plants making them healthier and stronger. Would like to run a test with only the IR and UV-A radiation. I know from reading up more on light that between the uv-b to Uv-c wave lengths is when radiation becomes dangerous.
 
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mattman

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I was stating that the UV light was to give the rats cancer, the purple tomatoes with the anthocyanin gene (which acts like super anti-oxidant) were ground into a powder and fed to the rats. Two cages both cages with rats w/ tumors. 1 cage fed with the purple tomato powder and 1 cage fed with regular pellets. The cage fed with the super tomato outlived the other rats by a large percentage or their cancer was cured.
 
mcpurple

mcpurple

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mattman said:
Okay, In a bio seed plants class we had to review and write a journal about a new tomato plant that was super purple. Pretty much they took a gene from a bacteria that produced the same purple pigment and placed it in the gene of the tomato. Grew it out and fed it to two different sets of rats... the ones fed the purple tomato resisted cancer completely, while the others gained it at a significant rate. Both were placed under High UV light to induce cancer... the instructor had no idea where to obtain these things,

Anyone know?
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sounds liek some GMO going on witch IMO is the worst type of plants to grow, you should look into something that has not been genetically modified
 
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bump1987

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mcpurple said:
sounds liek some GMO going on witch IMO is the worst type of plants to grow, you should look into something that has not been genetically modified
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I was kind of thinking the same thing McPurple. I think eating non-gmo seeds and non-processed foods in general will cut your cancer chances more so than a GMO seed that has its pigment effected. That being said, who has the dark meat non-gmo seeds if they are available? I've always wanted to try one of them but can not find them.
 
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mattman

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bump1987 said:
I was kind of thinking the same thing McPurple. I think eating non-gmo seeds and non-processed foods in general will cut your cancer chances more so than a GMO seed that has its pigment effected. That being said, who has the dark meat non-gmo seeds if they are available? I've always wanted to try one of them but can not find them.
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id also be interested
 
cannawizard

cannawizard

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Jah Leon said:
Hi,

A little background before I get started.

Tomatoes
During a Horticulture breeding course, blue or purple tomatoes was brought up. Originally these tomatoes can be breed from the original land race of tomatoes that grow in Columbia. U.S. breeders and European breeders have been busy make stable hi-breds for the market as it has increase cancer fighting properties which is known for sometime now.

Uv-radiation
Currently did some experiments with experimental leds and found that uv-a increase phenotype dominance in plants making them healthier and stronger. Would like to run a test with only the IR and UV-A radiation. I know from reading up more on light that between the uv-b to Uv-c wave lengths is when radiation becomes dangerous.
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*UV-b isnt that bad ;) your mj <3s it.. in right doses.

--cheers
 
Lt. Fydor

Lt. Fydor

Member
this sounds very interesting. I'm in the process of growing 8 heirloom tomato plants outdoors of the following names: Isis, Italian American, Gold Medal, Jersey Devil and Black Russians... The black russians are supposed to turn out a deep dark purple, I wonder if they're related. I believe they're open-pollination so i'm going to save as many seeds as possible
 
amazingsandlad

amazingsandlad

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mcpurple said:
sounds liek some GMO going on witch IMO is the worst type of plants to grow, you should look into something that has not been genetically modified
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Just playing devil's advocate here, I generally agree, but selective breeding is genetic modification. Every crop grown for food that has a strain name attached to it is a GMO. Dogs and house cats and cows and anything else "domesticated" is a GMO. Just because there are different tools available now to do it faster and more precisely doesn't change the intent. If you could make a strain of rice available that would end world hunger, would you deny it just because it carries a gene from a bacteria? Just for the record, I would, but not because I'm against genetic modification.
 
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