Cornell Apple Breeding: Taste the Apples of the Future

October 13, 2011 - Susan K. Brown, director of Cornell's Fruit and Vegetable Genomics Initiative and head of the apple breeding program, presents a broad view of the process of creating new apple varieties from history and technical aspects to marketing and consumer satisfaction.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• agriculture
• horticulture
• plant breeding

[paleotechnics]

This is interesting if somewhat disturbing. It's sad to see this kind of research going more to please the big players in a market driven economy. Clearly some of the spirit of altruism which drove early breeders is lost here. How exactly do people have a choice about GMOs if you release them so they can cross pollinate with other papayas and apples? How is a kid that finds, steals or is given a GMO apple in McDonalds or school lunch supposed to know/care? Not moved by the papaya story.