After using modern techniques to develop and test tomatoes for desired qualities, researchers will turn to more conventional hybrid breeding to produce a modified tomato with the same chemical endpoints and, presumably, the same desired qualities.
Why replace modern, targeted methods and turn to slower, less-precise ways to produce the same tomato? Two reasons, according to Changโs article. First, a tomato bred the conventional wayโnone of this targeted molecular tweaking, people!โevades the regulatory labyrinth that can put its inventor out millions of dollars. That, even though the end product is exactly what youโd get if the tomato were genetically engineered.
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