stone said: Seems like they already had the colour without needing to use CRISPR tech...
@stone , thanks for the input. And this is NOT made with CRISPER gene editing... its with gene insertion.
There are basically the three classes of GMO- as I see it in my 'non-biologically educated' mind:
1) beginning early-mid 1900's to now: Irradiation and chemical DNA manipulation. This technology is older than most of us here, and was just considered 'hybridizing.' But it was, IN FACT, making new GMO's- the public just didn't see that as an issue-then. We see that as an issue, now. We can make our own GMO in our own microwave-got a handful of seeds? "Little Shop of Horrors" gif would be appropriate.
2) 1970s— now: 'transgenic plants' created by introducing foreign genes from another biological entity into an organisms genome.
3) 2010-2020 - now: 'new genomic technologies' (NGTs) which include organisms created with the genome editor CRISPR and similar methods that just alter existing DNA— as opposed to introducing foreign DNA as is the case with transgenic GMO.
There are plenty of us who love to dig into this issue, as I do. Some others, maybe not so much...
"The leading scientist behind the Purple Tomato is Cathie Martin, a biochemist who trained at the University of Cambridge. About 20 years ago, she set out to create a transgenic tomato, using DNA from another unrelated organism, in this case, a purple snapdragon, which is an edible flower."
