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Thread #9589 Message #4110947
Posted By: Howard Kaplan
21-Jun-21 - 09:22 PM
Thread Name: Origins: riddle song (I Gave My Love a Cherry)
Subject: RE: Origins: riddle song (I Gave My Love a Cherry)
Pairwise's first product, expected in a year or two, will be a seedless blackberry it says will have a more consistent taste than traditional varieties. It is also working on a stoneless cherry.
All this could be done through traditional breeding techniques, but as fruit trees take years to mature it would be a very long-term project.
"Some of the fruits we're interested in, like cherries where we want a pitless cherry, theoretically you could do it with breeding but it would take 100-150 years," says Mr Baker.