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Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day by manigandham on Friday March 08, 2019 @07:38PM (#19343655)
Fruits are all sugar, they're nature's candy. They've also been genetically modified to be bigger and sweeter than they ever were before industrial farming.
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Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day by samatman on Friday March 08, 2019 @10:00PM (#19344172)
The term you’re looking for is ‘bred’.

Genetic modification is a term of art, one which doesn’t apply (yet) to fruits on the market.

This will not be true forever, papaya and banana are likely to be the first ones.

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Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day by manigandham on Saturday March 09, 2019 @05:56PM (#19349072)
Ah, got it. What are the GMO versions designed to do then?
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Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day by samatman on Sunday March 10, 2019 @03:29AM (#19350839)
work on GMO papayas and bananas is to render them less susceptible to diseases.

Bananas in particular are a triploid, so any given strain is effectively one big clone propagated by vegetative cutting, hence the lack of seeds. This leaves them unusually susceptible to funguses, which can adapt to them, while they can't remix their genome to adapt back.

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