I'm a pretty big fan of genetic engineering of plants when it is in the form of selective breeding. Gene splicing and recombination is quite a bit trickier and could potentially cause some sleeping-beauty-esque disasters (poisonous apples anyone?). Richard Espley from a Plant and Food Research company in New Zealand shows red fleshed apples and selective breeding enhanced by gene research.
Two things: 1) There is a kind of apple in Switzerland that doesn't age and might actually heal its own wounds. They're trying to make it into a moisturizer that prevents aging. 2) Have you read Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan? If you haven't, you NEED to.
Two things:
ReplyDelete1) There is a kind of apple in Switzerland that doesn't age and might actually heal its own wounds. They're trying to make it into a moisturizer that prevents aging.
2) Have you read Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan? If you haven't, you NEED to.