Health Canada has approved a new tomato variety that incorporates a gene from snapdragon flowers so the tomatoes are purple.
Researcher Cathie Martin at the United Kingdom’s John Innes Institute did the research and plant breeding.
Norfolk Healthy Produce got Health Canada’s approval to bring The Purple Tomato to Canada.
This seems to have flown under the media’s radar. I heard about them from an Australian crop breeder at a University of Manitoba lecture this fall, wrote Geralyn Wichers in the Manitoba Cooperator newspaper.
