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.
The tart peaches could be used for cobblers, pies, crisps, and tarts, without any lemon juice needed.