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5 days ago · Tomatoes have about 35,000 genes and Pumplin points out the Purple Tomato has only two extra from a snapdragon. Tomatoes are self pollinating, which means pollination is contained within the ...
5 days ago · Francis says this isn't a case of the modified tomato genes escaping into the wild from a UK lab and traveling by wind across the English Channel to France because tomatoes don't spread like ...
6 days ago · In an earlier version of this story the name of Norfolk Healthy Produce CEO Nathan Pumplin was misspelled as Pumpkin. NPR News. An organic seed company was distressed to learn it had marketed a GMO purple tomato by mistake. The incident raised alarm about the impact of new GMO plants.
6 days ago · The Purple Galaxy Tomato splashed across the cover of this season’s Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog: a closeup of a blackish-purple tomato speckled with tiny pink dots. Next to it, sits a sliced open fruit, revealing deep fuchsia seeds and flesh. “This beauty is believed to be the first — and the purplest — non-GMO purple tomato in ...
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3 days ago · All sugar beet grown in the US and Canada can be assumed to be genetically modified. The FDA has approved two varieties of GMO Sugarcane to be used for food and feed. In 2013, about 55% of US sugar was from sugar beets, and 45% from sugarcane. But until the Purple Tomato, no GMO vegetable seeds were available for the public.
Apr 17, 2024 · In a 2021 interview with The New York Times, Martin said, “There’s just so much baggage around anything genetically modified. I’m not trying to make money. I’m worried about people’s health!
Apr 24, 2024 · However, genetically engineered viruses, such as sonchus yellow net rhabdovirus (SYNV) 98 and tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) 99, are able to deliver nucleases and even larger base editors ...
