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Is there any truth to the clich\u00e9 that Israel invented the cherry tomato?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We asked the man known as one of the \u201cfathers\u201d of the cherry tomato: the aforementioned Prof. Rabinowitch of Hebrew University.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In the 1970s and 1980s, Rabinowitch and Prof. Nachum Kedar (now deceased) caused a global revolution with the very first extended shelf-life tomatoes. Next, they used genetic knowhow to reinfuse the wonderful flavor and aroma of tomatoes<\/span><\/a> that had been lost through earlier breeding programs for disease resistance and heirloom traits.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

And then they set their sights on the coin-sized cherry tomato, originally a South American weed. It was domesticated up until then primarily as a European and American backyard plant.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cCherry tomatoes were tasteless and had no shelf life, so they couldn\u2019t be made into a commodity until Nachum Kedar and I introduced better breeding for flavor and long shelf life,\u201d Rabinowitch tells ISRAEL21c.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

This breakthrough made the cherry tomato mass-marketable in the Western world for the first time in history.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

These Israeli scientists also introduced cluster cherry tomatoes that are picked like bunches of grapes, because picking single cherry tomatoes is slow, expensive and labor-intensive<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The late Prof. Nachum Kedar (pictured) and Prof. Haim D. Rabinowitch of the Hebrew University established the foundations of modern tomato cultivation. Photo by Nati Shohat\/FLASH90<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n


<\/a>Science brings good old flavor back to tomatoes<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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