In test fields in New York and Washington state stand about 100 trees bearing the Canadian-designed Holy Grail of fruit science: an apple that cannot brown.
“It’s a tremendous trait to have overcome when it comes to putting apples in new markets and new places — and building the consumption of apples,” said Neal Carter, the founder of Okanagan Specialty Fruits, the small biotechnology company that created the Arctic Apple, so named for its unspoiled interior.
But as the Arctic Apple wends its way toward final approval in both the United States and Canada, genetic-engineering alarmists and entrenched apple interests alike are increasingly framing the new fruit as a profane creation of perverted science.
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