keccers
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A banana that doesn’t brown? Now that’s bananas! 🍌 Tropic has developed some new bananas via gene editing that don’t brown after they are peeled, and have been approved for sale in the Philippines, Colombia, Honduras, the US and Canada “Bananas are asexual,” said Gershon. “There’s no real breeding in bananas. We’re eating today the same bananas as our grandparents were eating in the 1950s. The only real opportunity we have to adjust the banana to meet the challenges the industry is facing is through gene editing.” In addition to the bananas which are set to launch, the article touches on the myriad of ways in-progress teams are working on using gene editing to “update” our food supply. The team behind the purple tomato (remember that?) is working on super long lasting potatoes 🥔 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/07/gene-edited-non-browning-banana-cut-food-waste-tropic-norwich
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Chris Carella
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oh man one thing Honduras does not need is more bananas but I assume it means they will sell the seeds down here to be grown which can be an economic boom down here if it doesn't cannibalize sales. I wonder if this effects taste one way or another... ie the bananas I eat from my backyard are so much better then in the US every time I eat one I ponder what is wrong with the US food supply.
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keccers
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I mean, you may have answered your own question. There’s decay over the supply chain. Your supply chain is your backyard to you. How many steps does it take for a banana to get from the nice warm place where it is grown, to me?
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