Imagine being able to control exactly when the plants in your vegetable garden will ripen.
New research out of Colorado State University could make that concept a reality. Researchers there have been working to create what they call 鈥済enetic toggle switches鈥� embedded in the DNA of plants.
The researchers plug synthetic DNA into a plant鈥檚 genetic material and use it as a switch that tells the plant to ripen, or flower, or grow.
Professors June Medford and Ashok Prasad led this research into plant biology and their findings in the journal ACS Synthetic Biology.
They joined host Erin O鈥橳oole to talk about how these 鈥渢oggle switches鈥� work, and how the technology might eventually change the produce section at your grocery store.
