Cotton: Testing is underway on GM cotton with altered fiber quality that is also moth resistant and drough tolerant.
Pizza: It was modifying rennet, a dried extract used to curdle milk for cheese, to speed the cheese making process, wheat used in bleached flour to be more easily digestible and produce greater yields and green peppers, onions, and tomatoes to stay fresh longer in supermarkets, resist pests, and survive droughts.
Coffee: Testing coffee plants engieered to produce coffee with altered caffeine content. If these new coffee beans are approved for public consumtion, coffee growers could potentially produce decaffeinated coffee beans, avoiding having to decaffeinate coffee beans after the harvest.
Sushi: Ride is one of the 3 crops, along with corn and wheat, on which scientists have conducted the most research using genetic modification. In test fields around the world, researches are planting rice with altered starch levels, pest resistance, and edible nitrition. Salmon may soon become the first GM fish.
Corn: Biotech companies have filed more applications to plant varieties of GM corn in field tests than any other crop. The are testing corn concoctions that have altered oil profiles, amno acid compositions, seed color, starch content, and ability to tolerate drought.
Fly: The 1st GM insects are due for release in the US this summer. Using what is called the Sterile Insect Technique, bio technologists genetically sterilize an all male population of pests, which are then released into a crop area. Since the GM insect can't contribute to reproduction and most female pests and mate only once, the pest population in the release area is eventually reduced or even eliminated. Successful SIT programs in other countries include the eradication of the tsetse fly in Zanzibar, the melon fly in the Okinawa islands, the Queensland fruit fly from western Australia, and the med fly from Mexico.
Bananas: Scientists are testing several different crops for uses as edible vaccines against a host of diseases, including hepatitis, polio, cholera, and malaria. Bananas and other fruits may serve as particularly good storage media for audible vaccines, because their shins provide sterile barriers against contamination. Bananas are also indigenous to many developing nations. There, conventional vaccines can be difficult to deliver on a broad scale, because they typically need to be refrigerated and administered by health care professionals.
Fruit: Plant geneticists are testing almost any fruit you can think of for GM variety approval. Strawberries, pears, melons, apples, grapefruits, and watermelons, with altered sugar content, fruit ripening cycles, and pest resistance may be hitting your local produce aisle soon.
Flowers: Petunias may become the 1st GM flowering plants available to decorate your dinner table. Researchers are currently conducting tests on petunias possessing GM coloring and pesticide resistance.
Fries: Potatoes engineered to absorb less oil when fried are currently pending approval by food regulatory boards. Biuengineers are also working to generate high performance cokking oils such as peanut oil, sunflower oil, and soybean oil, which may allow for healthier fried food with fewer saturated fats.
Pizza: It was modifying rennet, a dried extract used to curdle milk for cheese, to speed the cheese making process, wheat used in bleached flour to be more easily digestible and produce greater yields and green peppers, onions, and tomatoes to stay fresh longer in supermarkets, resist pests, and survive droughts.
Coffee: Testing coffee plants engieered to produce coffee with altered caffeine content. If these new coffee beans are approved for public consumtion, coffee growers could potentially produce decaffeinated coffee beans, avoiding having to decaffeinate coffee beans after the harvest.
Sushi: Ride is one of the 3 crops, along with corn and wheat, on which scientists have conducted the most research using genetic modification. In test fields around the world, researches are planting rice with altered starch levels, pest resistance, and edible nitrition. Salmon may soon become the first GM fish.
Corn: Biotech companies have filed more applications to plant varieties of GM corn in field tests than any other crop. The are testing corn concoctions that have altered oil profiles, amno acid compositions, seed color, starch content, and ability to tolerate drought.
Fly: The 1st GM insects are due for release in the US this summer. Using what is called the Sterile Insect Technique, bio technologists genetically sterilize an all male population of pests, which are then released into a crop area. Since the GM insect can't contribute to reproduction and most female pests and mate only once, the pest population in the release area is eventually reduced or even eliminated. Successful SIT programs in other countries include the eradication of the tsetse fly in Zanzibar, the melon fly in the Okinawa islands, the Queensland fruit fly from western Australia, and the med fly from Mexico.
Bananas: Scientists are testing several different crops for uses as edible vaccines against a host of diseases, including hepatitis, polio, cholera, and malaria. Bananas and other fruits may serve as particularly good storage media for audible vaccines, because their shins provide sterile barriers against contamination. Bananas are also indigenous to many developing nations. There, conventional vaccines can be difficult to deliver on a broad scale, because they typically need to be refrigerated and administered by health care professionals.
Fruit: Plant geneticists are testing almost any fruit you can think of for GM variety approval. Strawberries, pears, melons, apples, grapefruits, and watermelons, with altered sugar content, fruit ripening cycles, and pest resistance may be hitting your local produce aisle soon.
Flowers: Petunias may become the 1st GM flowering plants available to decorate your dinner table. Researchers are currently conducting tests on petunias possessing GM coloring and pesticide resistance.
Fries: Potatoes engineered to absorb less oil when fried are currently pending approval by food regulatory boards. Biuengineers are also working to generate high performance cokking oils such as peanut oil, sunflower oil, and soybean oil, which may allow for healthier fried food with fewer saturated fats.