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Flavr Savr failure (was Re: BST a flop?)



In article <v02130501aeb01a84a473@[205.184.16.234]>,
Bill Blake <whblake@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>Another genetic engineering failure: the Flavr Savr tomato. Calgene was
>engineering it for years, and heavily in debt before the tomato hit the
>market. There's no way they could have made back all they spent.

	One of the most important ways in which Calgene screwed up was in
allowing Campbell's to have so much say in what tomato variety to modify.
Calgene ended up modifying a tomato that (according to my understanding, at
least) was never intended for eating out of hand;  it was a processing
tomato.  Additionally, I guess that variety was susceptible to fungal(?)
diseases that made it impossible to grow them productively in the humidity
of Florida.  
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