MAT Kinase tells the story of some of a cool, weird, (and potentially deadly) fruit created using nothing but conventional breeding techniques in Plumalmodterine. Steve Savage has the conversation with a Greenpeace campaigner I’ve always wanted to have with the people who can constantly be found soliciting money for similar organizations on my walk to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘papaya’
Hawaiian Pineapples and the Seed Industry
There’s an article being passed around by people who claim it shows the seed industry is driving Hawaiian pineapples out of business. The data I could dig up suggests a different story.
Genetically Engineered Crops: Papaya
Profile of papayas which have been genetically engineered to resist the papaya ringspot virus. Notable particularly because development was done entirely by the public and non-profit sector. Also get the chance to touch on the differences between adoption in the United States and other countries, particularly Thailand.