The future of genetically-modified plants could include potatoes with tiny hamburgers in the middle

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By Jess ZimmermanApr 10, 2014, 3:52 pm23 pts
io9 has a roundup of where genetically-modified plants could be going in the next few generations, and it’s a heck of a lot weirder than tomatoes with fish genes. Writer Daniel Berleant envisions oak trees that reproduce via spores and wheat that can fix nitrogen in the soil as well as beans, but shit gets…

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