This worries me, genetically manipulating food. Either it genetically manipulates us, or it has unforeseen effects on us.
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More recently – three to four > thousand years ago – the domestic apple was cultivated from *Malus > sieversii*, a wild apple species that can still be found in forests > throughout China and Kazakhstan. Currently, at 57,000, apples have more > genes than any other plant sequenced so far. > > Given that the study has identified all 992 genes responsible for disease > resistance, the IASMA <http://www.iasma.it/> researchers hope that crop > breeders will now be able to create new types of apples that are hardier > than any that have come before, and that are perhaps also better tasting and > more nutritious. They would also like to see these new apples requiring less > in the way of “agro-technical interventions”, be those irrigation, > herbicides, pesticides or fertilizers, resulting in a lower impact on the > environment. > > The research has just been published in the journal *Nature > Genetics*<http://www.nature.com/ng/index.html> > . > > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
