Ed thanks for pointing this out I had missed it.
this GMO stuff is a little annoying. they go thru all this trouble to come up with some trait that isn't even all that great. if they worked half as hard on making their fruit taste like it's supposed to TASTE like with coming up ways to more practically do optimal cultivation for flavor and not worry about other stuff... their fruit might sell more too. every gmo invention is like lets make it miraculously resistant to a really toxic spray we're gonna blindly drench everything with (is that a good thing really?) or now this. Just put some lemon juice or whatever if you really really care because you're making fruit salad in advance for guests or something... otherwise why not just keep it unpeeled until you're going to eat it? is this really what the top scienctists have to offer us in terms of advancement of the fruit? i might consider growing a GMO rainresistant black madeira... but this??? :D
“Is it a rotten apple that looks fresh?” said Lucy Sharratt... -http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/business/growers-fret-over-a-new-apple-that-wont-turn-brown.html
this is not even taking into account any possible unforseen safety concerns in shutting down an enzyme or protein when usually these molecules tend to have more than just the studied, stated, and known function but frequently work in concert with other molecules to accomplish other complex things in the cellular biology. oh well. i also dont understand why we cant just label GMOs. if the public is freaked out by them, maybe work on that freak out phenonoma in the public first instead of trying to hide what people will be consuming.