'Arielle' a self-drying type cultivar.

Lineage with CWP (Cuticular Water Permeability) gene.

This tomato cultivar with an indeterminate port, produces  long clusters of red cherry tomatoes weighing around twenty grams, with a high sugar content, which can of course be consumed fresh directly on the plant, but which have the particularity of having a porous skin, thus allowing the fruits to dry naturally.

By the time the tomatoes have ripened, they have lost about 80% of their weight through evaporation.  

Hanging the bunches in a dry, ventilated place for a few weeks will allow them to complete their drying.

In particularly hot and dry conditions or in a greenhouse, the fruits can even dry directly on the plants.

This cultivar has been marketed since 2007, it was developed by Supree, a subsidiary of NRGene Technologies; an Israeli company based in Ness Ziona.

Supree exploited the trait of “microcracks” to create this cultivar. A trait usually eliminated when breeding tomatoes.

This preserves the taste and color of the tomato, as well as its nutritional benefits, such as antioxidants and vitamins.

Reproducible seeds.

The plants were grown by open pollination with the cultivar ‘Principe Borghese’, a traditional Italian cultivar with a determinate habit, producing fruits with a high dry matter content, used for drying.