Apples that never go brown could be on sale by 2014 - with GM fruit staying white for weeks [View all]

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By ROB WAUGH

Apples that never go brown could be on sale as early as 2014.

A Canadian biotech company has filed a request with food regulators to start selling two varieties it claims will stay fresh for weeks on end.

Okanagan Specialty Fruits said the genetically modified apples have had the gene responsible for browning ‘silenced’, meaning they remain green or red indefinitely.

The firm hopes that it will get approval in the U.S. and Canada within a year and will start planting trees - with the fruit being sold the year afterwards.


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