{"id":90687,"date":"2019-05-13T17:02:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T00:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/crispr-might-soon-create-spicy-tomatoes"},"modified":"2019-05-13T17:02:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T00:02:23","slug":"crispr-might-soon-create-spicy-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/crispr-might-soon-create-spicy-tomatoes","title":{"rendered":"CRISPR might soon create spicy tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crispr-might-soon-create-spicy-tomatoes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking for perfect heat and lots of it? Gene engineers in Brazil think they might be able to create eye-watering tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hot stuff<\/strong>: Even though chili peppers and tomato plants diverged from a common ancestor millions of years ago, tomatoes still possess the genetic pathway needed to make capsaicinoids, the molecules that make chilis hot.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Agustin Zs\u00f6g\u00f6n from the Federal University of Vi\u00e7osa in Brazil writes in the journal <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/trends\/plant-science\/fulltext\/S1360-1385(18)30261-9\">Trends in Plant <i>Science<\/i><\/a> that gene-editing tools like CRISPR could turn it back on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/f\/612721\/the-next-feat-for-crispr-might-be-spicy-tomatoes-made-with-chili-genes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for perfect heat and lots of it? Gene engineers in Brazil think they might be able to create eye-watering tomatoes. Hot stuff: Even though chili peppers and tomato plants diverged from a common ancestor millions of years ago, tomatoes still possess the genetic pathway needed to make capsaicinoids, the molecules that make chilis hot. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}