date:Apr 26, 2013
Del Monte Fresh Produce has won approval from the USDA to ship genetically engineered pineapple into the US.
The Del Monte Fresh Produce Co., based in the Cayman Islands, has developed a transgenic pineapple that has tissue of a novel rose color.
The company has altered the fruit to overexpress a gene derived from the tangerine and to suppress other genes, increasing accumulation of lycopene, according to its submission to the USDA.
The plant's flowering cycle has also been changed to provide