there's a few types of zucchini that have been genetically modified, hawaiian papaya. there may be other things coming down the pike but right now i think that it's pretty much thee limit of it. >> did any of you know that high a is genetically modified plaques if they were not you wouldn't have any.b, >> so, you are the plants i so tell us a little bit about what gmo is. >> that is a great question because those of us t that do ts we all think that plants far because there's nothing you buy in your grocery store whether it is organic or conventional that hasn't been genetically modified every single broccoli, corn, cauliflower squash, everything was modified meaning manipulating genes and there is no difference between manipulating a gene and theff classical way by greeting because you are directing some change by projecting a trait that you want so in the modern l context or the popular context it means the molecular sent that an individual wasn't born withia and so there's the two extremes and the other is geneticthe ot modification were doing some molecular work so

so the hawaiian papaya was acceptable by a virus and was engineered by a slick technique i will not describe but it prevented the virus from infecting the papaya meaning if you had not genetically engineered it would not have been around. that genetic engineering increased the yield of the papaya. yield means grow more on less space. that is what yield means in agricultural sense. there is really no one gene that would be the yield gene and i don't think the gmos were sold on it basis of yield but sold more on the basis of we can do this without pesticides, we can do this without plowing the soil over. they were more an efficiency and economic point of view. in terms of increasing yield, we have not even packed the potential of what genetic modification can do in the molecular sense. but in the classical sense, think hybrid corn. that is the classical example. taking two different varieties of corn, growing them together and much taller and heartier and much better than the parents. if we can learn what those mechanisms are we can do that in the laboratory and then by able to think about inc

. >> taste of the day is hawaiian strawberry papaya. they are delicious and loaded with flavor.e is the caribbean red papaya from south america. they are fantastic. did you know they are super food. when you buy them the green color is okay. not too much. more yellow the better. when you bring them home store them on top of the counter or on the table at room temperature. they'll become nice and ripe. when they are nice and yellow that's when you enjoy them. when you cut them in half on the inside that's the why they are called strawberry pap ada's. they are beautiful on the inside. they are loaded with nutritional valley. value. eat fresh and stay healthy. ,,,,,,,, withdrew their new healthcare legislation yesterday... when it became clear they didn't have enough votes to pass it. the bill aimed to repeal and replace are act.. the >>> republicans abruptly with drew their healthcare legislation yesterday when it became clear they did not have enough votes to pass it. the bill aimed to repeal and replace the affordable care act. obamacare saves 200 lives in california a year. >>>