Saturday, August 21, 2010

 

Tart Peaches

CEO Joseph is thinking of genetically engineering peach trees by taking a juice producing cell from a lemon tree and cutting out the lemon juice gene, and slotting it onto a plasmid (ring of DNA). Next it would be put in an Agrobacterium and it would multiply and discs would be cut out of a peach tree leaf and incubated in the genetically engineered Agrobacterium, and bumps called calluses would form and grow shoots. And then, the shoots would be placed into a shoot-inducing medium. Finally you have a tart peach tree.
The tart peaches could be used for cobblers, pies, crisps, and tarts, without any lemon juice needed.

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