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Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday January 08 2019, @02:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the zesty-sauce dept.

takyon writes:

Gene editing could create spicy tomatoes, say researchers

Spicy tomatoes could soon be on the menu thanks to the rise of genome-editing technology, say researchers. It is not the first time experts have claimed the techniques could help to precisely and rapidly develop fruits and vegetables with unusual traits: scientists have already been looking at changing the colour of kiwi fruits and tweaking the taste of strawberries.

But researchers in Brazil and Ireland say such methods also could offer practical advantages, with spicy tomatoes offering a way of harvesting capsaicinoids, the pungent chemicals found in chilli peppers.

[...] Tomatoes and chilli peppers developed from a common ancestor but diverged about 19m years ago. "All the genes to produce capsaicinoids exist in the tomato, they are just not active," Zsögön said.

Capsaicinoids: Pungency beyond Capsicum (open, DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2018.11.001) (DX)

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday January 08 2019, @04:51PM (3 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday January 08 2019, @04:51PM (#783727) Journal

    Hard mode: Fazoli's [wikipedia.org].

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  • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Tuesday January 08 2019, @05:08PM

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Tuesday January 08 2019, @05:08PM (#783738) Journal

    There was another middle-grade Italian-American restaurant, y'clept Johnny Carino's (and now defunct as far as I know), we used to go to that had some decent stuff. They made a pasta sauce that was quite good, and they had a salad dressing they made with Gorgonzola instead of Bleu Cheese that was also very tasty; smooth and rich. Then again, they did that awful continental thing where they served up (very good) bread with a nasty plate of olive oil if you didn't catch the server ahead of time and ask for butter instead.

    This particular franchise instance was always packed when we went there, but apparently there were other issues, or stores elsewhere simply weren't doing as well.

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  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday January 08 2019, @07:12PM

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday January 08 2019, @07:12PM (#783799)

    Fazoli's looks awful. Is it cheap? It must be cheap.

  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 08 2019, @08:39PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday January 08 2019, @08:39PM (#783836) Journal

    Fazoli's is awful but I love it anyway (though have gone a grand total of one time this last entire year because hurr hurr low-carb diet). It's basically what happens if Olive Garden and McDonalds have mutant babies.

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