I clearly haven’t written up my master post on genetically engineered crops. Here’s where the game plan currently stands.
Posts Tagged ‘genetic engineering’
Predictable Spinning of Squash
Follow a scientific publication to an NPR report to a blog post to an article in Grist. Cool science facts turn into predictable fiction in three links and less than a week.
Banana Biology
When I was giving my lecture to on phylogeny and tetraploidies, I found out not everyone knows why bananas don’t have seeds. The reason the bananas we eat don’t have seeds is that they are all sterile. A long time ago the Cavendish bananas first came into being when a tetraploid banana (that is a [...]
GM Tomatoes Don’t Taste Bad
Photo Dalboz17, Flickr I can’t count the number of times I’ve run into someone either online or in person who is convinced genetic engineering makes food taste bad. “Just try an organically grown heirloom tomato,” they will say, “it’s so much juicier and tastier than those GM tomatoes you buy at the grocery store.” It [...]
Herbicide Resistance
Plant breeders can find natural resistance to pathogens. Some crops can be grown in regions where they have few or no natural insects attackers. But every crop with face the problem of weeds, other plants that threaten to steal light and nutrients. And the crops that sustain us will always suffer from an unfair handicap, [...]