Peril: Pepper Spray

peril: This is desirable because, compared to tomatoes, chillies are difficult to farm and capsaicinoids have other useful applications besides their flavour in pepper spray for example, according to The Guardian. Bananas Facebook Twitter Pinterest The beloved banana is in peril. Although tomatoes contain the genes for capsaicinoids the chemicals that give chillies their heat they are dormant Crispr could be used to make them active. Photograph Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters Genetically edited bananas could be resistant to a disease known as fusarium wilt that has been attacking plantations across the globe. Strawberries Facebook Twitter Pinterest Soon to be sweeter still Photograph Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters Sweeter and even peach-flavoured strawberries are being worked on by US scientists using Crispr techniques. Researchers at the Norwich-based startup Tropic Biosciences are using gene-editing techniques to develop a new, more resilient version of the fruit after securing 7.5m from investors. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.