{"id":207,"date":"2011-02-25T11:30:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T11:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2014-12-24T16:58:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T16:58:06","slug":"papaya-ringspot-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/blog\/papaya-ringspot-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Papaya Ringspot Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago I wrote a short blog post &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/blog\/papaya\/\">Transgenic Papaya &amp; Taking Into Account<\/a>&#8221; wondering if the application of genetic engineering makes sense when facing a very specific agriculture challenge like Papaya ringspot. However, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/agro.biodiver.se\/2011\/02\/papaya-protected-from-virus-by-wild-relative\/\">Papaya Protected From Virus by Wild Relative<\/a>&#8221; on the Agricultural Biodiversity Blog makes me reconsider my comments.<\/p>\n<p>Luigi writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.dpi.qld.gov.au\/horticulture\/5333.html\">Papaya ringspot virus<\/a> is the major limiting factor to production of pawpaws in many countries. There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmo-compass.org\/eng\/grocery_shopping\/fruit_vegetables\/14.genetically_modified_papayas_virus_resistance.html\">GM\u00a0&#8220;solution&#8221;\u009d<\/a>, but there&#8217;s now news that after 50 years of trying researchers have <a href=\"http:\/\/springerlink.com\/content\/48t805l7w7564288\/\">transferred resistance<\/a> by conventional breeding from a wild relative, <em>Vasconcellea quercifolia<\/em>. I ran this by a colleague who&#8217;s an expert on papaya taxonomy, genetics and breeding and he had this to say:<\/p>\n<p><em>I am very happy that they seem to have succeeded in their long and difficult work. And this is excellent news for all developing world papaya growers. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">GM was not the right solution because each virus strain implied a costly transformation (including patent rights), and the virus is highly variable.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago I wrote a short blog post &#8220;Transgenic Papaya &amp; Taking Into Account&#8221; wondering if the application [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3186,"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/3186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}