Should researchers engineer a spicy tomato?
Monday, January 7, 2019 - 15:10
in Physics & Chemistry
With the latest gene-editing techniques, it could be possible, although challenging, to make a tomato produce capsaicinoids (the compounds that make peppers spicy), researchers argue. Their objective isn't to start a hot, new culinary fad -- although that's not completely off the table -- but to have an easier means of mass producing large quantities of capsaicinoids for commercial purposes.