PASADENA, CA—Geneticists at the California Institute of Technology
announced Monday that they have developed a tomato with a 31 percent
larger price tag than a typical specimen of the vine-ripened fruit.
“By utilizing an exciting new breakthrough in gene-splicing
technology, we’ve been able to manipulate this new tomato with
recombinant DNA in such a manner as to make it nearly as pricey as a
similarly sized tangelo,” said Dr. Lee Nolan, who headed up the
project. “Genetically modified crops such as this will be instrumental
in helping average grocers keep pace with unaffordable organic stores
such as Whole Foods.” In addition to vastly surpassing similar produce
in expense, the new tomato will reportedly wipe out four species of
ladybugs.
[Homestead] Exciting new tomato created,
Gene GeRue, 05/21/2008