Biotech apples may be harbinger for genetically modified spuds
date:May 16, 2013
hink it's very likely, Muir said. Depending on how they react, it could be very similar.

Okanagan's Arctic-brand apples use similar technology to block gene function that Simplot also employed to create its first-generation of engineered potatoes, designed to reduce black spot bruising and lower levels of a potentially harmful substance produced during frying.

Those just started U.S. Department of Agriculture review this month.

This process, called RNA interference, is different from Monsanto
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