Taste and Appearance
Discoloration
- likely due to polyphenol oxidases (like tyrosinase)
- antisense constructs reduce “blackspotting” in potato
Sweetness
- monellin from African plant “serendipity” is 100,000 times sweeter than sucrose
- A chain 45 aa’s, B chain 50 aa’s
- expressed as single fusion chain in tomato and lettuce
- Sweeter? Good for lettuce?