Editing the seeds out of our fruits

• Autores: Alice Klein
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3122, 2017, pág. 14
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • People might be pleased to know that seedless ones have been created by gene editing. The technique could create a wide range of seedless fruits, but few may ever reach supermarket shelves if regulators decide to treat gene-edited crops in the same way as genetically engineered ones. Several seedless fruits, from bananas to grapes, are already available, but have mostly come about by luck rather than design. And although there are a few seedless varieties of tomato, they have taken breeders many years to create