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Can Gene Editing Save the World’s Chocolate?

Did you know that cocoa plants (Theobroma cacao) around the world are being affected by viruses and fungi, to the point of killing whole crops? The CRISPR technique could make them resistant to these infections, saving cocoa crops, chocolate, and more than 50 million jobs generated by their industry!

Article by Laura Geggel, Livescience

Can Gene Editing Save the World’s Chocolate?

A cocoa pod in Ecuador infected with the fungus Moniliophthora roreri, which causes frosty pod. Credit: Shutterstock

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Saving Cavendish: Team grows world-first Panama disease-resistant bananas

Exciting news.
I hope that this can be applied to Gros Michel bananas as well.

Saving Cavendish: Team grows world-first Panama disease-resistant bananas

The RGA2-3 modified Cavendish in the Northern Territory field trial. Credit: QUT.

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More apple varieties!

I remember that some of the apples we got at the Cornell experimental station last year had similar problems: They were very sensitive to bruises.

Notice that other than the Arctic Apples all the other apples here have been obtained by traditional breeding.

This autumn’s apples mark the beginning of the designer fruit era

A Niedwetzkyana apple.

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Saying NO to Orinoco Mining Arch in Venezuela

The Venezuelan Government is promoting the Orinoco Mining Arch as an exit to the current Venezeulan crisis. Some people say it will give us 20 billion dollars of income.

A herd of 5000 to 10000 GM goats that make lactoferrin on their milk would igve us the same income, but since we spent the last 17 years demonising genetic engineering while not investing in research and development. We bought tons of arms and and Russian planes, so no GM goats, we’ll suck the mercury.

That’s Chávez legacy.

We could have been Singapore, but the majority chose Zimbabwe.

 

 

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