Sei madomasi achiita kunge arasa hunhu? Sei dzimwe ndiro dzichidaidzira ketchup kana uchibika nemadomasi? Iyi mibvunzo yakati wandei iyo Qian Feng, wechipiri-gore reYunivhesiti yeGeorgia Koreji yeAgriculture neEnharaunda Sayenzi yechiremba mukwikwidzi, anotsvaga kupindura kuburikidza nekutsvaga kwake.
Feng, nhengo yePurofesa Esther van der Knaap's chirimwa biology lab muUGA Institute yekudyara kwekudyara, genetics, uye genomics, akakurira muChina, mugadziri mukuru wemadomasi. Mazhinji echinyakare maChinese madhishi anosanganisira madomasi sechinhu chikuru, asi Feng akaziva maitiro anovhiringidza.
"Kazhinji kupfuura izvo, mhuri yangu yaifanirwa kuwedzera akawanda maco condiment kuti ibudise iyo chaiyo 'tomato' kuravira," Feng akatsanangura.
Asina kugutsikana neiyo bland flavour profil, Feng akatanga kuongorora nhoroondo yekushanduka kwetamato kuti aburitse chero hunhu hunogona kutsanangura kurasikirwa mukuravira. Akaona kuti kuburikidza nekusarudza kusanganisa kuwedzera saizi uye yekunze dziviriro gamba - pamusoro pekubereka mhando dzisingarware nezvirwere zvemadomasi - varimi nevarimi vakagadzira kuravira kwakanyanya uye husina kudya kwakanyanya.
Kiyi yekuyera uye kuwedzera kuravira kwetamato iri mumakemikari ayo, kunyanya huwandu uye mhando yemakemikari, kana volatiles, aripo mune chikafu. "Kubatanidza volatiles dzakasiyana kune chaicho zvinodiwa nevatengi, hatigone kuvimba nemutengo wakayerwa. "Tinofanirwa kuve nepaneravira kuitira kuti maonero emunhu ekuravira akwanise kutariswa," akadaro Feng.
Uchishandisa tsvagiridzo kubva kuna Denise Tieman naHarry Klee paUniversity yeFlorida, avo vakapedza makore vachiunganidza data risingachinjiki pamwe chete nekuravira kwepaneru kubva pamhando dzemadomasi dzinopfuura zana, Feng akakwanisa kunyora mamwe majini anokonzeresa kugadzirwa kwakawanda kuti ape zvakakwana mufananidzo wenzira dzemakemikari mumatomatisi.
Kunyangwe kumwe kutsvagurudza muvan der Knaap lab kusingatarise pakusarudzika kwekusimudzira kuwedzera huwandu hwenzvimbo dzinoonekwa mumadomasi, Feng anotarisira kuti mhedzisiro yake inogona kushandiswa nemamwe marabhini ekuberekesa uye zvivakwa zvekuunza majini anodikanwa mumhando dzemadomasi dzazvino kana nyowani. .
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