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Re:How Driscoll’s Is Hacking the Strawberry of the Future by Robadob on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @02:46PM (#9970741)
There is an interesting image[1] at the bottom of the article, about how to extract the DNA from a strawberry, surprised (and partially sceptical) that it's really that simple.

[1] http://assets.bwbx.io/images/iBaJbMBMgtrI/v1/-1x-1.jpg

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Re:How Driscoll’s Is Hacking the Strawberry of the Future by cwal37 on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @02:51PM (#9970769)
It really is that easy. I did some very simple splicing in a genetic engineering lab in undergrad with soybeans, and while there was less DNA (which we extracted for PCR), the process was still mostly centrifuging and alcohol.

Here's another source on the strawberry thing[1].

[1] http://genetics.thetech.org/online-exhibits/do-it-yourself-s...

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Re:How Driscoll’s Is Hacking the Strawberry of the Future by Terribledactyl on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @03:07PM (#9970869)
It helps that strawberries are octoploid, they have 8 copies of each chromosome. I remember doing this in a high school biology lab. (Much more fun than enzyme extraction from livers...)
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