In fact, the very first genetically engineered crop to hit the market in the US in 1994 was a tomato. The so-called Flavr Savr tomato was engineered to stay riper longer. (Calgene, the biotech ...

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.

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 ...

In May 1994, a tomato engineered to suppress the production of a softening enzyme — called 'Flavr Savr' — was released in the US. It used antisense RNA technology to enable the tomato to ...

Do you remember the Flavr Savr tomato? It was the first genetically engineered crop to receive U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval 25 years ago. The growth of genetically modified food has ...

Michael Le Page mentions the genetically modified Flavr Savr tomato (26 May, p 28). This was a commercial failure because it was never sold to the public except in tins or as tomato paste ...

Genetically modifying food is not a new concept by any means. The "Flavr Savr" tomato, the first commercially available genetically modified food, went on sale in 1994. Luckily there have been ...

Glow-in-the-dark mice, silk-producing goats, venomous cabbage-- these are all wacky and downright unsettling examples of what can happen when scientists tinker with DNA. They're also part of the ...

It's nearly two decades since the first "transgenic" food - the Flavr Savr tomato - appeared on supermarket shelves. But the horror of fish genes in a tomato, or any other such genetic ...