GMO Coconuts WAS Re: Eggs in coconut milk

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> they GMO coconuts?

> k

>

Apparently, yes.

From this site

http://www.searca.org/~bic/resources/bulletin/BIC_Bulletin_June01.htm

The Philippine Crop Biotechnology R & D Program particularly on genetic

engineering concentrates efforts on rice, coconut, corn, banana,

papaya, and mangoes. The Program aims to develop rice varieties with

resistance to stem borer tungro, blast and sheath blight; corn

varieties with resistance to Asiatic corn borer; bananas with

resistance to BBTV; papayas with resistance to PRSV; coconuts with

higher levels of medium chain fatty acids; and mangoes and papayas

with delay ripening traits. The research on GE is conducted mainly by

the DA-Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) and the

Philippine Coconut Authority-Albay Research Center (PCA-ARC) as well

as the University of the Philippines Los Banos (UPLB)-Institute of

Plant Breeding (IPB), Institute of Biological Sciences (IBS) and the

National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (BIOTECH).

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Sharon