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  • From: "Shoemaker, William H" <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Glyphosate
  • Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 00:34:40 +0000

I'm not aware of any private sector GMO development in fruit trees, but I
have a colleague who was looking at moving fireblight resistance from one
apple source into another apple variety. He may be doing other things. I know
he engineered a tomato variety to deliver a vaccine for a childhood disease.
Whether it gets released generally depends on finding funds to cover
registration costs, which can be a 8-figure invoice.

The problem with producing GMO fruit and vegetable crops is that it is SO
expensive. It isn't just the development work. Its the registration and
approval process. THEN, they have to market this stuff. With corn, cotton,
soybeans, etc., the product kind of disappears into processing channels and
emerges as an ingredient that isn't clearly identified as GMO in a finished
product. But with fruit and veggies, they have to introduce the whole
product, fresh, to the consumer. And they just know they will have a tough
time getting over that hurdle. Consumer acceptance of GMO foods is really
poor, so they have to hide it as an ingredient in a processed food. The Flavr
Savr tomato ruined it for the GMO crowd, so you may not have to worry about
fresh fruit and vegetable varieties that are genetically engineered for a
while.

Bill
William H. Shoemaker
University of Illinois, Crop Sciences
St Charles Horticulture Research Center
535 Randall Road, St Charles, IL 60174
630-584-7254, wshoemak AT illinois.edu

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Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 5:46 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Glyphosate

you may be right I heard fruit trees and DNA but you may be right. its hard
to keep up because they can take genes from any living thing and add it to
any living thing and then own that life. hard to keep up. sorry I not a
expert. I was just saying it is not the glyphosate it is the power to alter
our food supply and not let us know what we are eating. you think they will
label this lab made genetically engineered fruits do you think the pollen
will spread and contaminate me ?. What do you know about the GMO alfalfa
what's that about and is that controlled. if not there goes organic milk
and beef and chickens and eggs etc. what ever eats grass.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shoemaker, William H" <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Glyphosate


> Roundup Ready Fruit Trees? I hadn't heard of that. I know there has been a
> little work on genetically engineered fruit trees but that wasn't Roundup
> Ready, it was disease resistance. It wasn't Monsanto either. Could you
> point me to further information on the Round-up Ready fruit trees?
>
> Bill
> William H. Shoemaker
> University of Illinois, Crop Sciences
> St Charles Horticulture Research Center
> 535 Randall Road, St Charles, IL 60174
> 630-584-7254, wshoemak AT illinois.edu
>
> ________________________________________

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