How Driscoll’s Is Hacking the Strawberry of the Future
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#2this use of the word hacking makes me barf
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#3I always find it fun and interesting to see all the complexities of other fields that one would normally not think about. This did a great job of bringing light to something I had considered pretty mundane.
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#4There 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.
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#5Driscoll strawberries are disgusting when compared to a more natural and naturally grown strawberry.
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#6There 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
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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#7I'd like natural strawberries, thank you very much!!!
Edit: The downvoters are free to be subjects for future genetic engineering projects themselves.
Re: How Driscoll’s Is Hacking the Strawberry of the Future
#8this use of the word hacking makes me barf
New for 2016: presenting the new iStrawberry!
Re: How Driscoll’s Is Hacking the Strawberry of the Future
#9There 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
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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#10Driscoll strawberries are disgusting when compared to a more natural and naturally grown strawberry.
What kind is that, exactly? Since, you know, humans have been selecting and cultivating plants for specific characteristics since the beginning of agriculture. And that's all that this article is describing, saying "I like this characteristic, lets try breeding it with this other strain and see what comes about". I would be interested in these primitive, untouched by man strains you seem to be referencing, as such, and where you found them.