Horticulturist Ralph Scorza pollinates plum flowers while geneticist Ann Callahan measures sugar content and molecular biologist Chris Dardick measures fruit size. FasTrack allows scientists to pollinate flowers and evaluate fruit from the same plants in the greenhouse year round. FasTrack is the name of a new plant breeding process developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers. It uses genetic engineering technology to greatly speed up the breeding process, but the final products are not Genetically Modified Organisms. The exotic gene that lends speed to the process is removed in the final stage of the breeding process. FasTrack was created by […]