From the BBC news article titled How farmers and scientists strive for more flavour, which discusses a company named Pairwise that is using CRISPR technology: 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.
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