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The quest for a healthier tomato: A multimedia feature

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Plant geneticist Majid Foolad is breeding a super tomato with high levels of the healthy red pigment, lycopene. R/PS intern Joseph Gyekis and multimedia specialist Emily Rowlands recently joined Foolad in his fields near University Park to learn about this unique new crop.

Join Foolad's quest: View the image slide show.

tomato slide show

—Captions by Joseph Gyekis
Photography by Emily Rowlands

Majid Foolad, Ph.D., is professor of plant genetics. He can be reached at mrf5@psu.edu.

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