Top 10 Genetically Modified Food In the US

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8. Papaya

Papaya cultivation was being threatened by the Papaya Ringspot-Virus for Hawaiian papaya industry. In the late 1980s, they began to develop a genetically modified version as a resistance to the virus by transferring the viral capsid proteins into papaya genome to create the effect of an immune response. After a long term research project in 1999, the first virus resistant papayas were grown commercially and approved for consumption both in the US and Canada.

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