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Jane works in the commercial fruit industry, helping her company to identify desirable qualities in strawberry plants, and then breed them so they can be grown successfully in large quantities. She explains that her company uses selective breeding, not genetic modification, to achieve the results they are seeking, and Jane explains why flavor is not necessarily always the most-desirable trait that her team looks for. Things get a little nerdy, but Jane helps explain it so we can all understand her tremendously interesting job.
By Adam Owens5
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Jane works in the commercial fruit industry, helping her company to identify desirable qualities in strawberry plants, and then breed them so they can be grown successfully in large quantities. She explains that her company uses selective breeding, not genetic modification, to achieve the results they are seeking, and Jane explains why flavor is not necessarily always the most-desirable trait that her team looks for. Things get a little nerdy, but Jane helps explain it so we can all understand her tremendously interesting job.