Very interesting how they divest the focus into the gardeners and not into the creators of the tomato. The common title would be sort of: "Scientists make a gen

Very interesting how they divest the focus into the gardeners and not into the creators of the tomato. The common title would be sort of: "Scientists make a genetically modified purple tomato made with snapdragon DNA", but that could attract criticism. Its all about the message that you want convey. On the other hand probably the gen is harmless. I assume that everybody ate it yet for decades on blue tomatoes without growing a second head. The snapdragon was moved to the family Plantaginaceae, that as a whole is not great-not terrible in terms of chemistry defenses, but is still a relative of the foxglove that definitely is very dangerous. Wild black tomatoes with black flesh are poisonous normally, so this move is a little like selecting a white carrot and losing the advantage that "if is orange, is not hemlock".