A supposed vegetable born of something called “Flavr Savr” seeds does ... So instead, most tomatoes were picked green and ripened artificially, which can make them taste pretty awful.

Flavr Savr’s developer ... It simply cost them more to make the tomatoes than they could sell them for.” Dr. Klee now studies fruit flavor quality as a professor at University of Florida ...

Several weeks ago, a troupe of advance men for the Flavr Savr tomato-expected to be the first ... the fence before I said no. You can’t really make the right decision until you know the issue ...

The so-called Flavr Savr tomato was engineered to stay riper ... and aroma compounds that make tomatoes tasty. “Tomato is much more complex in that the flavor is really a melting pot of lots ...

The Flavr Savr story begins in Davis, where researchers for Calgene, a biotech company, found a way to make the skin of a tomato more resistant to rot. Use of the Flavr Savr resulted in some ...

The Flavr Savr tomato kept fresh for 30 days and could be shipped long distances without going off. Yet the world was wary of this new food, and it took 10 years and $100m of investment to get it ...

While science continues to make new GMOs, many companies will not use them due to consumer preference. In 1994, the “Flavr Savr” tomato became the first genetically engineered food to be ...

In First Fruit, Martineau, as a staff scientist working for the biotechnology startup Calgene (Davis, CA), provides an inside view of the development of the Flavr Savr tomato, the first ...

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have been called many things since the introduction of the Flavr Savr—a tomato with an extended ... 300 million acres to make up for the crop-yield ...

It was a tomato called 'Flavr Savr', which stayed fresh for up to 30 days. Show more In 1994, biotech company Calgene brought the world's first genetically-modified food to supermarket shelves.