Beakers To The Rescue
Newsweek, May, 2008 by Mac Margolis
Scientists say a new green revolution could head off future food crises.
Pity the papaya. odd-shaped and orange-fleshed, it lacks the iconic status of the apple or the stage presence of the banana. Lately, though, it has become something of an agronomic superstar. Last month a team of international researchers led by the University of Hawaii finished mapping the genome of a variety of papaya engineered to withstand ringspot virus. Ringspot is a killer; it nearly wiped out Hawaii’s $17 million-a-year papaya industry. Then, in the late ’90s, scientists came to the rescue by plucking a gene from the virus itself and splicing it into the papaya plant, like a vaccine. Today, Hawaii’s papaya groves are flourishing and, with the genome in hand, scientists now believe they will...
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