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The Papaya Was Engineered. So Was the Rescue System.

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From RN Collins, selected work

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Research cited

  1. HITAHR 05 08 94 (ctahr.hawaii.edu) ctahr.hawaii.edu
  2. App to track papaya ringspot virus created (hawaii.edu) hawaii.edu
  3. IpHandbook Ch 17 27 Goldman Papayas (ipmall.law.unh.edu) ipmall.law.unh.edu
  4. Cornell and university hawaii introduce first genetically engineered fruit crop (news.cornell.edu) news.cornell.edu
  5. law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/40/174.515 law.cornell.edu
  6. ams.usda.gov ams.usda.gov

Other sources

  1. apsnet.org apsnet.org
  2. ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publication ars.usda.gov
  3. apsnet.org apsnet.org
  4. File:Starr 070215 4510 Carica papaya (commons.wikimedia.org) commons.wikimedia.org

Images, slide by slide

Slide 1
Two tall papaya trees loaded with green fruit stand in a Hawaiʻi Island orchard under a partly cloudy sky, with more rows of trees behind themPhoto: Greb, USDA ARSPhoto record
Slide 2
A papaya field in Hawaiʻi affected by papaya ringspot virus: rows of stunted, yellowed and mottled papaya trees on dark ground, with forest in the distancePhoto: Scot Nelson, CC0Photo record
Slide 3a
Illustrative photo: the third prototype of the Cornell biolistic gene gun, a metal chamber with a brass valve on top and a round window in front, photographed against a dark ground by the SmithsonianSource: Smithsonian NMAHPhoto record
Slide 3b
Illustrative photo: a horticulturist at the Hawaii Agriculture Research Center checks the root development of small papaya shoots in a tray, photographed by USDA in 2004Photo: Greb, USDA ARSPhoto record
Slide 4
Inside a shaded greenhouse, a horticulturist and a research center director look over trays of young papaya plantsPhoto: Greb, USDA ARSPhoto record
Slide 5a
Illustrative photo: a worker in a hat and protective gear sprays fungicide from a tractor-mounted rig between rows of tall papaya trees on dark ground, a Hawaiʻi orchard photographed in the late 1980s or early 1990s by plant pathologist Wayne NishijimaPhoto: Wayne Nishijima, CC0Photo record
Slide 5b
Illustrative photo: a basket of whole papayas, green to orange, photographed at Laulima Farm in Kīpahulu, Maui, in 2012 by botanists Forest and Kim StarrPhoto: Forest and Kim StarrPhoto record
Slide 6
Two people stand between rows of papaya trees on dark volcanic ground in the Waiakea Conservation District, Hawaiʻi Island, each holding a papaya: a plant supervisor for Tropical Hawaiian Products and an NRCS conservationist, discussing the orchardPhoto: Ron Nichols, USDA NRCSPhoto record
Slide 7
Two men in a packing shed examine green papayas in cardboard boxes after hot-forced-air treatment, a quarantine step for Hawaiʻi papaya exports, photographed by USDA in 1998Photo: Scott Bauer, USDA ARSPhoto record
Slide 8
A line of people holding signs stands along a highway beside palm trees on Maui, with a police monitoring camera on a tripod in the foreground; this was a 2012 GMO Free Maui protest at the gate of a Monsanto test fieldPhoto: Viriditas, CC BY-SA 3.0Photo record
Slide 9a
Illustrative photo: two plantings of papaya side by side along a dirt track in Hawaiʻi, healthy dense transgenic trees on the left and sparse virus-infected trees with bare trunks on the right, photographed by University of Hawaii plant pathologist Stephen FerreiraPhoto: Stephen Ferreira, CC0Photo record
Slide 9b
Illustrative photo: a papaya field where most trees stand as bare, leafless trunks among weeds, with a low cinder hill behind, a field hit by Phytophthora blight, photographed by Scot Nelson of Honolulu and posted in 2011 (the file page links a University of Hawaii extension publication but gives no place or date)Photo: Scot Nelson, CC0Photo record
Slide 10a
Illustrative photo: a USDA plant physiologist examines papaya plantlets growing in a petri dish in a research lab, photographed by USDA in 2004Photo: Greb, USDA ARSPhoto record
Slide 10b
Illustrative photo: a papaya cut open to show its seed cavity packed with round, dark, jelly-coated seeds, photographed at Laulima Farm in Kīpahulu, Maui, in 2012 by Forest and Kim StarrPhoto: Forest and Kim StarrPhoto record

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