Showing posts with label apples. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apples. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Genetic Engineering

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.