date:Nov 22, 2013
g concerns over the damage the apple could do to apple marketing. The public thinks of apples as a pure, natural, healthy and nutritional fruit. GM apples are a risk to our market image.
Summerland orchardist and president of Okanagan Specialty Fruits Neal Carter developed the Arctic Apple,using genetic techniques to turn off the gene that causes apples to turn brown after being cut. He claims that not only makes them more attractive to the prepackaged food industry, but the apples retain their