Growing Better Cacao: It's All in the Genes
The "easy" way would be to use the data to create new cacao varieties in the lab through gene-splicing techniques. I hope I can speak for all of us when I say that this would be the wrong way to use the data.
The "right" way to use the data (and the one that thankfully appears to be the consensus of the people and companies involved in the sequencing) is to make traditional cross-breeding techniques more effective by being able to concentrate on only the most promising crosses.
What a bunch of superstitious anti-genetic modification nonsense.
You are willing to eat food with carefully selected genes but only if they are put in there with messy, inaccurate selective breading and not by accurate, targeted genetic modification. That's a preference from mystic beliefs, not built on ascetics or reason.
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