The genetic engineering produced on these tomatoes was the solution to reduce the amount of chemical usage to crops as well as introducing a greater disease resistance, insect resistance, and increase shelf life. Conclusively, scientists and farmers still wanted to keep their natural color and flavor, yet change it into a more positive way.
70 years ago, spoke of the dangers of nightshade foods, covering all this ground, and stating that traditionally in South America, where potatoes and tomatoes come from they were eaten as medicine – that is given specifically for a short period time for a specific condition.
A high level of gene flow into a population tends to beconsidered to have equivalent allele frequencies and therefore effectively be a single population.
