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Israeli innovation isn’t just limited to high-tech, it also extends to the development of some of the world’s most popular new fruits and vegetables.

Jan 21, 2021 Researchers at the Israeli Syngenta Vegetable Seeds Company, a world leader in agro-technology, have reached a breakthrough with the development of a new tomato variety. By TPS After five years of intensive work, researchers at the Israeli Syngenta Vegetable Seeds Company, a world leader in agro-technology, have reached a breakthrough with the development of a new tomato variety, the world’s first variety resistant (IR) to the tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBFRV), which over the past six years has laid waste to more than 50% of the tomato crop in Israel and globally. Israel...

ToBRFV resistant variety gives hope to Israeli tomato growers “Over recent years, I and my fellow growers have felt helpless when faced with a virus that reduced yields by 50%. We were forced to destroy enormous quantities of tomatoes and some have even moved over to growing different crops." Speaking is Idan Alon, a tomato grower in the Northwest Negev Region in Israel, who has seen the devastating effects of ToBFRV. Now there's good news from Zeraim - Gedera - Syngenta, the Israeli department of breeder Syngenta. After five years of intensive work, their researchers, have developed tomato...