02 Jan 2020 --- Farmers could soon be growing tomatoes bunched like grapes in a storage unit, on the roof of a skyscraper, or even in space. That is if a clutch of new gene-edited crops prove as fruitful as the first batch. Spring Harbor Laboratory research – which engineers a wider variety of crops that can be grown in urban environments or other places not suitable for plant growth – has created “urban agriculture tomatoes” which could be a game-changer for growing in limited spaces.
