{"id":1331,"date":"2009-06-18T14:01:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T14:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2009\/06\/18\/1331\/"},"modified":"2009-06-18T14:01:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T14:01:46","slug":"genetic-engineering-of-fruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/genetic-engineering-of-fruits\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetic engineering of fruits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/timlawrenz\/350937587\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/126\/350937587_e4da4c249c_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/timlawrenz\/350937587\/\">bananas and pineapples<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/timlawrenz\/\">tim.la<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Am I the only one who loves the taste of pineapples and mangos but finds them a pain?<\/p>\n<p>Pineapples are far too complicated to get into, and mangos have this horrible big stone in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>All fruit should either be very easy to peel, like bananas, or have edible skin, like apples, and they shouldn&#8217;t contain any stones or seeds.<\/p>\n<p>Why are the genetic engineers wasting their time on making wheat resistant to herbicides and other boring projects, when they should be developing pinanas (pineapples with banana skin) and pangos (mangos built like a pear, without a stone and with edible skin)?<\/p>\n<p>The technology surely is there, so bring it on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bananas and pineapples Originally uploaded by tim.la Am I the only one who loves the taste of pineapples and mangos but finds them a pain? Pineapples are far too complicated to get into, and mangos have this horrible big stone in the middle. All fruit should either be very easy to peel, like bananas, or have edible skin, like apples, and they shouldn&#8217;t contain any stones or seeds. Why are the genetic engineers wasting their time on making wheat resistant to herbicides and other boring projects, when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,102,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-environment","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}