Diospyros sandwicensis Diospyros sandwicensis Diospyros sandwicensis is a species of flowering tree in the ebony family, Ebenaceae, that is endemic to Hawaii. It belongs to the same genus as both persimmons and ebony. Its common name, lama, also means enlightenment in Hawaiian. "Lama" is a small to medium-sized tree, with a height of and a trunk diameter of . It can be found in dry, coastal mesic, mixed mesic, and wet forests at elevations of on all major islands. "Lama" and "olopua" ("Nestegis sandwicensis") are dominant species in lowland dry forests on the islands of Maui, Molokai, Kahoolawe, and Lānai. The sapwood
Genetically modified tomato function of genes naturally present in tomatoes. Wild tomatoes are small, green and largely unappetizing, but after centuries of breeding there are now thousands of varieties grown worldwide. Agrobacterium-mediated genetic engineering techniques were developed in the late 1980s that could successfully transfer genetic material into the nuclear genome of tomatoes. Genetic material can also be inserted into a tomato cell's chloroplast and chromoplast plastomes using biolistics. Tomatoes were the first food crop with an edible fruit where this was possible. Tomatoes have been used as a model organism to study the fruit ripening of climacteric fruit. To understand the mechanisms