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Published online 9 October 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news001012-3
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Sweet potato
GM researchers have built a spud that spews out sugar when mashed and boiled, David Adam discovers.
GM researchers in France have built a potato that produces massive amounts of fructose -- the sweetest of all natural carbohydrates -- when mashed and heated. The sugary spuds could one day be harvested to produce the sweeteners used in everything from diabetic chocolate to soft drinks.
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