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Genetic engineering could create spicy tomatoes
Tweaks to the tomato’s genes could turn it into a spicy one-stop shop for the salsa of the future, Popular Science reports. Shared ancestry with hot peppers, such as the jalapeno, gives the mild-mannered tomato all the genetic tools needed to set the human mouth ablaze. Scientists outline two genetic pathways to turn tomatoes spicy in new research published this week in Trends in Plant Science. The motivation for turning up the heat on the tomato isn’t just culinary.
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Why would you do that? You could, you know just add chilli to tomatoes, when you're cooking. Then people who don't like chilli or are allergic to it, won't have to check every time they buy tomatoes.
One of the more stupid even dangerous uses of GM.