Research by our consortium has just been published in the journal Plants People Planet. The article is a vital proof-of-concept study, and shares preliminary findings about the potential of Mexican tomato agrodiversity to help better understand the environmental regulation of plant biochemistry under different climates. It shows that local tomato varieties, adapted to both colder and warmer climates of different parts of Mexico's Oaxaca Province, accumulate higher levels of compounds that are important to human nutrition - significantly higher than the mainstream commercial varieties grown in Mexico.
We believe that this type of research could eventually help with breeding of “climate-smart" cultivars that are low-inputs, high-nutrition and delicious. However, this type of research and breeding work will only be possible if we first do more to document and protect traditional varieties.
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