[mumofstig]

But in the specific case we're discussing

they didn't use a tomato gene..........................

The purple pigment is the result of the transfer of a gene from a snapdragon plant

So what they've created is not a tomato hybrid - it's a man-made inter species cross - and that's what I object to.

[Headgardener22]

I agree completely Mum. If I had read the article more accurately, I would have been more voiciferous in my objection.

If these are what your OH's friend has bought, please ask them not to grow them. There are plenty of purple tomatoes without manufacturing something.

[Nobbie]

But in the specific case we're discussing

they didn't use a tomato gene..........................

The purple pigment is the result of the transfer of a gene from a snapdragon plant

So what they've created is not a tomato hybrid - it's a man-made inter species cross - and that's what I object to.

Fair enough, I thought they'd used  tomatoe gene. would probably take even longer to try an cross a snap dragon and a tomato

[diospyros]

Overheard a "bloke down the pub" type discussion this week - he'd sown some tomato seeds his wife had saved from shop bought fruit, plants had grown "but of course they probably won't have any fruit, because they're hybrids, they breed them so you can't grow fruit from them"... people are so confused as to the facts.  Even my mother in law was telling me how pot noodles are made with GM.  She had seen "modified soya protein" on the ingredients list.  Then I think the backlash goes back the other way and the companies get away with stuff they shouldn't.

[Goosegirl]

I agree completely Mum. If I had read the article more accurately, I would have been more voiciferous in my objection.

If these are what your OH's friend has bought, please ask them not to grow them. There are plenty of purple tomatoes without manufacturing something.

She was horrified and has thrown them away.

[Headgardener22]

She was horrified and has thrown them away.

I suppose I would have been interested to know whether the seed from the fruit would have been viable. Worried but interested. If they can get out into the amateur domain, how are they to be controlled?

There are thousands of different varieties of tomatoes and I would doubt whether anybody could stop them getting distributed.