sadly, this article and the salesman in my case… well sometimes you earn money, others you earn experience. found this articles too late.
anyway, how hard would it be to produce a color altered strawberry? (I know there are red and white/yellow varieties), but how hard would it be to make a plant produce chromatophores with another color, they have made some tobacco plants that have luciferin and glow when sprayed with luciferase, glow in the dark axolotls and pigs and I don’t know what did Peter Parker and a goat do to get spider silk proteins on it’s milk.

antifreeze is a catch all term for polyethilene glycol (the stuff you don’t want to drink and is in the radiator of your car), and some intresting proteins that actually hunt for ice and dismantle it (the kind eskimos eat when they fish a sleeper shark, and we get when we eat flavrsavr tomatoes or other GMOs)

the difference is basically that a selective breeding program is done by a guy wearing jeans and square cotton shirt for a couple decades while the GMO is done by a guy in a lab coat in years (and yes, FDA or other similar must aprove the plant for it to be sold openly, look at glowing plant stuff)
if you go “organic” (I really HATE calling naturally grown food organic because BPA, Antrhax and Dioxine ARE organic products) and need to keep a pesky worm out of your field you could use Bacillus Thuringensis, a bug that kills worms, or you could use a strain of BT’s poison injected to your plant.
some farmers speed up the trait appearence expose plants to mutagens, and then select the ones that a, survive and b have a trait of intrest.

because citrus hybrids share the same species (not genus) and the pollen is interchangeable. The same is true for stone fruits – peaches, nectarines, plums, almonds and cherries – and equines. I hope I’m being pedantic and you were being sarcastic…

Thats why we have all these weird citrus mixes right ? Like the tangalo? Or How about these freaky plum necterine or plum peach mixes. I dare you to buy one plant the pit and see what you get. You get a plum. How about donkeys and horses?? Huh jackass??

Lol selective breeding and genetically modifying does not have anything in common. Try breeding a fish with a carrot. Goodluck. Try breeding a carrot with a different variety of carrot. Pollen will be accepted and the carrot will create seed, because naturally they are the same species. For example, an african american and a caucasion couple have a baby, its still human, and may have traits from both parents, where in plants selective breeding you see what plants has the best traits and you breed those together away from other pollen sources (of the same species of plant, because if you tried to selectively breed a potatoe and a carrot, well,,, again goodluck). Then the seeds produced will HOPEFULLY turn out similar as imagined. GMO is taking genes from completely different species of not only plants, but bacteria, and now fish. The genes usually make the plant produce some kind of chemical to either make it pest resistant or in this case produce antifreeze, which even though it may contain small amounts, I doubt it would b any good for ya. Nice decorate plant tho.. for sure

Not only could gmos like these provide much needed solutions to problems like malnutrition and hunger, but theyre so common now, no matter how much you try to avoid them it’s pretty much inevitable that you’re doomed to eat them regularly.

Ever eaten corn? 90% of US corn is genetically modified.

And unless scientists were to add in some bizarre poison gene or something, GMOs are safe. Think about a human, with an unfortunate pattern of DNA that caused an unwanted mutation, such as an extra digit. They’re still 100% human. Not crazy, disgusting, radioactive mutants.

These natural mutations are the same way. It’s not like adding chemicals to the food (which could be dangerous). The different genes are, as far as we know, no more dangerous than the genes in your body that make you different from the next person.

Finally! Somebody who knows the difference and what they are talking about. Too bad you’ll never convince these morons that its not all a conspiracy.

Google my name and “strawberry”, figure it out. Rather than write a snarky comment it might be good to attempt a little research. Oh wait, if you are against biotech, then you don’t do that, you just look for ‘gotchas’.

There is no blue strawberry, never was. As a guy that knows strawberry genes and genetics I can tell you this is a hoax— and you fell for it!

The strawberry wouldn’t taste like fish so you don’t have to worry about that because they are only taking the gene which is a small part of the DNA, so there will be no fish-like qualities except for the cold resistance, but as for the color I’m not sure that it will be like that unless there is a gene that codes for a blue color connected to the gene the codes for cold resistance.

Actually Josh is right, selective breeding and GMOs are the same even though they have different processes, so don’t be calling anyone ignorant. Also most GMOs aren’t dangerous, there is no substantial evidence that they are all dangerous for us.

but he is technically correct. Although personally food and pets I consider gene modifying simply a sped up process of selective breeding. Instead of hoping the mutations and phenotypes can be made dominant, you select the genes. Both require care yes, but its alot less sloppy and quicker to modify.

your name is dingleberrypie……..doesnt sound like a reliable sourse to me