THERE’S nothing like biting into a homegrown tomato – and if it’s your first time growing your own you won’t believe how ...

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Improving on a much-loved variety of cherry tomato (left), the CSHL team used gene editing to get ripe fruit two weeks earlier (right). These images were taken at the same point after planting.

This means they should ideally be stored the furthest away from the stove or oven, which produces heat that will cause the tomatoes to ripen more quickly. Laura also recommended storing tomatoes ...

The flavour depends largely upon the variety and how the fruit has been grown and ripened: some cheap imported tomatoes are grown under polytunnels, picked under-ripe, then artificially ripened ...