Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Papaya

What about Papaya in Hawaii? What is the story of this fruit and GMOS ? Find two sources, cite your references and write the story in your own words. Yours sources may be text or video. 


51 comments:

Anonymous said...

the papaya fruit were going to be wiped out from the face of the earth but scientists made a way to stop it from happening they made a gmo papaya called the rainbow papaya and it stood up to tje virus and in 27 months the papayas were coming back

Anonymous said...

It all began with rotten Papaya flesh. The Papayas infected got ring spot or something. Then, a scientist, his wife, and another scientist worked to put ring spot genes into the infected Papayas and then, ten years later, they achieved a ring spot resistant genetically modified Papaya.
http://www.extento.hawaii.edu/kbase/crop/crops/i_papa.htm https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/06/26/gmo-papayas-saved-11-million-industry-set-off-political-storm-hawaii/

Kallie W said...

https://foodinsight.org/how-gmo-technology-saved-the-papaya/ The Popaya's ring spot virus nearly wiped out the popaya's. Within two years half of the popaya plants were GMO. A decade later 90 percent of the Popaya population was GMO.
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/06/26/gmo-papayas-saved-11-million-industry-set-off-political-storm-hawaii/ Dennic Gonsalves was the scientist who came up with the idea to vaccinate the popaya crop from the virus using genetic engineering. Him, Carol Gonsalves, and David R. Lee did it by opening the popaya genome and inserted a gene from the ring spot virus into its genetic code. After ten years of work the Gonsalves and David R. Lee created a popaya plant that was genetically resistant to the ring spot virus.

GAVIN said...

papayas naturally are super healthy for the body, but sometimes like in Hawaii they have been genetically modifying these fruits and they sometimes lose they're healthy ness

Malayna said...

The papaya ring spot virus almost wiped out the crop of papaya. Dennis Gonsalves came up with the rainbow papaya, that was genetically resistant to the virus. A lot of people didn't agree with gmo foods, but so many foods are gm so they could do it.

https://foodinsight.org/how-gmo-technology-saved-the-papaya/
https://www.businessinsider.com/gmo-controversy-beginning-fruit-2017-6

Kayla said...

the story about the papaya isn't to long. At first papayas where just being grown like every other plant. Then there was a virus had almost made that plant completely extinct between the 1940s-1990s. A Hawaiian born scientist Dennis Gonsalves, who went to Cornell university came up this a genetically modified organism (GMO'S). Dennis Gonsalves called it the rainbow Papaya, it was completely resistant to the virus that had almost made the papayas go completely extinct in the first place. After that one acer of Papaya trees would make around 125,000 pounds of fruit. It saved the people in Hawaii around 11 million dollars, thats a lot of money. Dennis said that "Yet instead of ending a storm, as the crop’s name might suggest, the Rainbow papaya unleashed its own tempest."

https://foodinsight.org/how-gmo-technology-saved-the-papaya/
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/06/26/gmo-papayas-saved-11-million-industry-set-off-political-storm-hawaii/

Trinity said...

THE STORY OF PAPAYAS

Dennis Gonsalves was the scientist who developed the GMO papayas







( SORCES ) http://thesciencedemystifier.com/surprising-story-gmo-papaya/ and https://foodinsight.org/how-gmo-technology-saved-the-papaya/ )

Abbey Laney said...

About 75% of the papaya's grown is Hawaii have been genetically modified. The reason why it's so high is because in the 90's a virus spreed in the papaya's which decreased the percent of the crop by 50%. Local university scientists decided to try and cure the virus by putting a gene in the papaya. Unfortunately this was the only way to get rid of it.

http://thesciencedemystifier.com/surprising-story-gmo-papaya/
https://foodbabe.com/are-you-avoiding-papaya-because-it-might-be-gmo/

dale🦄 said...

on papaya day they all ate papaya but also learn about papaya like the reason that the papaya is here today is because of biotechnology, The papaya ringspot virus nearly wiped the crop out but then science GMO the papaya and now people are calling it the rainbow papaya and people in Hawaii are able to eat papaya without worrying about it disappearing because of the papaya, So really what they did was GMO the papaya and make it so it can be grown around the virus and not die.

Amber M. said...

The papaya industry is an 11 million dollar industry. In 2014 77% of people in Hawaii were growing papaya. Papayas are still very good for you and are very high in vitamin C. Farmers in Hawaii must spray their trees once every 10 days.

http://nwrage.org/content/impact-gmo-papayas-hawaii-0

https://www.nongmoproject.org/high-risk/papaya/

deacon Palmer said...

in the 1940s the papayas were exposed to a virus that killed 50 % of them then a scientist named Dennis Gonsalves a Hawaiian born scientist made a non-gmo papaya named the rainbow papaya and is resisted the virus

Anonymous said...

the papaya was running out so they decided to clone and genetically modify it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3xCmfnAV_4
https://foodinsight.org/how-gmo-technology-saved-the-papaya/

Aiden toy said...

Papaya fruits were going extinct because of a virus called ringspot were wiping the crop out. A Hawaiian scientist developed a genetically modified Papaya known as the rainbow papaya. the Papaya was the first genetically modified fruit to be grown in commercial production.

https://www.nongmoproject.org/high-risk/papaya/
https://foodinsight.org/how-gmo-technology-saved-the-papaya/

Charlie F. said...

A scientist named Denis Gonsalves, from Cornell University, saved the papaya from extinction. He did this by making a cure called rainbow papaya that fought off the virus that could have killed off all the fruits. This cure was also created by G.M.O. technology.

Here's the link for my citing:
https://foodinsight.org/how-gmo-technology-saved-the-papaya/

Anonymous said...

the story of the Papaya is that people were cutting them down and they were taking some of Hawaiis most popular fruit, and all of the GMOs were dyings and starting to kill the environment, and if they don't have GMOs the money of the crops will go down signyfinltly.

Anonymous said...

The Papaya fruit had a virus that almost made it go instinct. It started in Hawaii and the virus reached almost every area that grows the fruits. Gonsalves, a Hawaiian-born scientist at Cornell University, developed a genetically modified papaya, known as the Rainbow papaya, designed to be resistant to the virus. Within 11 months, the non-GMO papaya became infected with the virus. Within two years of working with a public-private partnership to help make the seeds commercially available to farmers, more than half of all the papaya grown on Hawaii was GMO. A decade later, GM papaya accounted for over 90 percent of papaya production.


https://foodinsight.org/how-gmo-technology-saved-the-papaya/

Anonymous said...

The Papaya fruit are fresh, sweet, and rich kind of fruit. There is a story about a virus back in the 90s about the Hawaiian papaya crop by 50%. People were inserting a gene from the virus into the papaya as a built-in vaccine. This was a success.

https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2013/06/10/hawaii-news/papaya-a-gmo-success-story/

http://thesciencedemystifier.com/surprising-story-gmo-papaya/

Lexsey D said...

Some states aimed to limit foods that have been made with genetically modified ingredients. Some states including California, Florida, and New York, have made an active anti-GMO campaigns.

https://www.businessinsider.com/gmo-controversy-beginning-fruit-2017-6

The papaya almost wiped out.They soon figured out why this was happening from the biotechnology. The reason for this was because of the papaya ring spot virus. This first started in the 1940s. By the 1990 that virus had made it to the papaya plants and infected them.

https://foodinsight.org/how-gmo-technology-saved-the-papaya/

Anonymous said...

Papayas have a virus called papayas ring spot virus this deforms the papayas and destroys the plants ability to produce food and it is caused by insect that eat the fruit. growing GMO papayas in Hawaii, There’s a lot of stigmatism around GMO crops or GMO technology. that helps the plants grow.

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/11/15/gmo-stigma-challenge-growing-virus-resistant-papaya-hawaii/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G-yUuiqIZ0

Ethan said...

In the first article, it was telling you how the papaya all most got taken out by a virus called the "papaya ringspot virus" it all most destroyed all of the papaya crops, and if we did not get GMO papaya it would be fully infected and take out the non-GMO papaya. In the second article, it tells you that the GMO papaya saved an 11 million dollar industry. This guy named Dennis Gonsalves used to live with the vires so once he was a kid he had an idea to save the papaya and tried to save it using genetic engineering almost a couple of decades later they made the papaya resistant to the papaya ringspot virus. Ethan Baker

Tianna said...

Papaya fruits were nearly wiped out by a Virus. the virus hit Hawaii in the 1940's to the 1990's. it toke over 90% of the papaya group. “GM papayas mean sustainability for our family farm. The farm started with my grandfather and went to my dad, now my brother and hopefully another generation,” Joni Kamiya, the daughter of a Hawaiian papaya farmer, told me.“The difference of going GM means one less worry about crop failure from the virus that remains ever-present to this day.”
Elizabeth Held is a director at the White House Writers Group, where she advises food and agriculture clients.

where I found this information: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjk3vyaxNngAhVoc98KHbjoAK4QFjAAegQICxAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffoodinsight.org%2Fhow-gmo-technology-saved-the-papaya%2F&usg=AOvVaw11X57suvZi68bSl0gpmKnS

Sara Tracy said...

The papaya ringspot virus almost made the crop extinct. The virus first started in Hawaii in the 1940s and by the 1990s had reached almost every area that grows papaya fruits. Production fell 50 percent between 1993 and 2006. Dennis Gonsalves created a genetically modified papaya, called the Rainbow papaya. It was made to resist the virus. Dennis Gonsalves planted the new rainbow papaya on the island of Puna and in no time the GMO saved the papayas.


1. https://foodinsight.org/how-gmo-technology-saved-the-papaya/
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX7AqBOJS84

Grace L. said...

The Papaya was almost wiped out in the 1940s and 2006. There was a virus that had killed 50 Percent of the crops. Thankfully scientist came up with a Genetically Modified Papaya that was not affected by the virus. This was called the rainbow Papaya. Farmers are so thankful for this because now 90 percent of the population of Papayas is the Genetically Modified version. You my still be able to get an original Papaya, but it's unlikely.

Quintin said...

The story of how the papaya was saved is when in 1940 a virus had hit Hawaii and by 1990 had almost reached every area that had grown papayas and almost wiped out all papayas, Production fell 50 percent between 1993 and 2006, but Dennis Gonsalves had created a geneticly engineered papaya and had called it the rainbow papaya, and the rainbow papaya had been pretty much immune to the virus. He had made a papaya with GMO Technology had saved and made it so everyone could still eat papayas today.

https://foodinsight.org/how-gmo-technology-saved-the-papaya/

https://www.farmprogress.com/blog/gmo-papaya-success-story-genetically-engineered-foods

Daniel said...

papaya was one of the most popular summertime fruit was papaya and that did not help the that papaya's all most got wiped out. in a 11 month time period a non-GMO papaya had become infected with a virus. to some people GMO papaya has made a world a difference.June is national papaya month and its not just to eat all the papayas you have its to thank biotechnology for helping the papaya not getting wiped out off the face of this earth

Anonymous said...

GMOs make it so papayas and other have a disease so it is infected and people can't eat the fruit. People now have to find a way to make it so papayas are not infected and people can eat them. gonzelva created a serum for this disease and it worked genetically modified made it so it can grow easier and quicker and the disease cant happen to papayas so people can eat the papayas again.
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Grace L. said...

I forgot my links

https://foodinsight.org/how-gmo-technology-saved-the-papaya/

https://gmoanswers.com/why-gm-papaya-story-personal-hawaii-local

Anonymous said...

Papayas are a fruit that had a disease called the papaya ringspot disease. Thanks to Gonsalves, he and his team created a genetically modified papaya called the rainbow papaya that was not affected by the virus and saved the species of papayas.

https://www.nongmoproject.org/high-risk/papaya/

https://foodinsight.org/how-gmo-technology-saved-the-papaya/

Anonymous said...

the Papaya is especially wonderful for anyone with a sensitive stomach and a poor digestion. Papaya contains a special digestive enzyme called papain, which is why the fruit is revered as a powerful digestive aid. While papaya is a source of fiber and is good for digestive health, eating too many may have a laxative effect, causing diarrhea and an upset stomach. with an actual virus inserted into the genome of the plant, the production of papayas were dependent upon the viral load, and the quality was affected. thats the story on papayas and how sometimes that can be healthy and sometimes they can be bad for your health.

https://medium.com/@gmoanswers/gm-papaya-story-c9a666c4bd5b

https://medium.com/@gmoanswers/gm-papaya-story-c9a666c4bd5b


Meredith s. said...

Papaya fruits were nearly wiped out by a virus, called prsv, which is the papaya ring virus. That rapidly spreads, it deforms the papaya and in young destroyed it to able to produce food at all. This virus comes from, insects that feed on the fruit. Many things were tried, to stop is. ct in the early 1960, they moved the papaya, production form one Hawaii island to another from island of Hawaii to the big island of Hawaii to the big in the pona district, the virus optimally reached, puna. Although, other meth ods were not working. including using insetesides , for protecting the virus not to spread. or giving a natural strain from, o create natural inoculation. or distroing infective trees. The virus just keep spreading. 53 million pounds of fresh papya, were being produced anualy. By 1998 that amount had cut in half. To 26 million pounds. The crops in lively hood, of farmers were being destroyed right in front of there eyes. moreover for consumers availability, of fresh papya and payaa juice. for fruit salad. and other things. were . threaded a powerful new tool biotechnology, was now available to fight, back farmers, and researchers begin to turn to genetic engineering in 1985. Step two identify the gene, that could solve the problem. Like proving resistants t o the desis. And study the gentic makeup. of the plant that needs the trait. They had to find a way to make this plant resistant, they new if icontacted genetic material from the virus within . within they dna they were protected. and if they can insert a copy of this gene from the virus itself into the papyas genitic makeup would be protected.

BEN said...

THERE WAS A DISEASE THAT WOULD ATTRACT BUG TO PAPAYA TO FIX THIS THEY SOME DNA FROM THE DISEASE IN THE PAPAYA AFTER 7 YEARS OF testing it worked





source international food information
GMO Answers (youtube channel)

Taylor F. said...


Once upon a time, in Hawaii, there were lots of papayas. Suddenly, they were getting infected by a papaya killing virus, also known as PRSV. The farmers were avoiding this virus for many years, but it spread through all of Hawaii, killing 95% of papaya trees. Someone had to find a cure, fast. For six years, scientists made virus resistant transgenic papayas using GMOs. They made it by cross protection. They put a virus closely similar to the papaya virus and put that into a papaya tree. This made the tree stronger and produce more papayas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX7AqBOJS84

https://medium.com/@gmoanswers/gm-papaya-story-c9a666c4bd5b

Anonymous said...

A while ago in Hawaii, there was a virus that was destroying all the papaya and was making it so that if there was no solution all of the papayas would die. then the rainbow papaya was created to resist the disease and be able to thrive.

Anonymous said...

oh yeah, and then people were mad about them using genetically modified food

Sofi D said...

Gonsalves,a Hawaiian-born scientist, Developed a genetically modified papaya. He called it the rainbow papaya. There was a virus that was destroying the papayas and that's why he ,ade the genetically modified papaya. https://foodinsight.org/how-gmo-technology-saved-the-papaya/ It saved an $11 million industry in Hawaii. https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/06/26/gmo-papayas-saved-11-million-industry-set-off-political-storm-hawaii/

sofia pothier said...

Papayas were almost wiped out, by the ring spot virus. Gonslaves a scientist genetically modified the fruit to prevent the virus from spreading to this GMP. This GMP is now known as the rainbow papaya. The papaya still isn't insect resistant or herbicide tolerant, but it being protected against this virus has made a huge impact on the world.

source: https://foodinsight.org/how-gmo-technology-saved-the-papaya/
https://www.nongmoproject.org/high-risk/papaya/

Emerson Goan said...

The Papaya Ringspot virus almost wiped out the Hawaiian papaya. A genetically engineered papaya was designed at the University of Hawaii and Cornell. This papaya was resistant to the virus and was nicknamed the rainbow papaya. Once this papaya was ready for commercial use the scientists sold the seeds to farmers. In two years, half of the papayas grown in Hawaii were GMO. Ten years after, Gm papaya accounts for 90% of the papayas grown in Hawaii.

Sources:
https://foodinsight.org/how-gmo-technology-saved-the-papaya/
https://www.stopogmpacifique.org/2016/04/24/transgenic-papaya-around-the-worl/

Connor Burnham said...

Hawaiian a hCornell scientist made the Rainbow Papaya to be resistant to a virus called papaya ringspot virus that could have cost industries millions. The virus was a sign of trouble for the next couple of years to farmers that would lose there fields. The new Papaya is dominating all of Hawaii taking 90% of the Papaya population t-day.

Cites :)

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/06/26/gmo-papayas-saved-11-million-industry-set-off-political-storm-hawaii/
https://foodinsight.org/how-gmo-technology-saved-the-papaya/

Paige said...

Papaya had this deseise called Papaya Ring Spot Virus and hers what i found about it.


Gm papaya grow better than non gm papaya. I found this information from https://foodinsight.org/how-gmo-technology-saved-the-papaya/

Gonsalve and his team made a papaya that was genetically resistant to the papaya ring spot virus I found this information from

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/06/26/gmo-papayas-saved-11-million-industry-set-off-political-storm-hawaii/

Anonymous said...

GMOs saved papayas people edited the papaya so it was safe from the disease that had killed most of the fruit. The ring spot virus was luckily countered with what the humans did to papayas to save them. We even have national papaya month because we saved them.







https://monsanto.com/innovations/biotech-gmos/q/what-happened-to-the-papayas-in-hawaii/

tyler gilbert said...

The papaya is a yummy summertime fruit that would not be here today without genetic engineering. In the 1940s the ringspot made its first appearance. By the 1990s the virus had spread to nearly all of the Hawaiian papayas. Production ended up dropping nearly 50% from 1993 to 2006. Soon though Gonsalves a Hawaiin scientist created a genetically modified version of the papaya called the rainbow papaya that is resistant to the virus. He planted these rainbow papayas on the island Puna. After 11 months the non modified papayas became infected with the virus. After 27 months the New York Times published an article describing how the gmo papayas were flourishing. After this a team of scientists worked to spread the gmo papayas around and by 2 years half of the papayas from Hawaii were genetically modified, this meaning that gmos saved a 11 million dollar industry.

sources: foodinsight.org and geneticliteracyproject.org

Destiny said...

In the 1990s papayas in Hawaii were infected by the Papaya Ring Spot Virus, which is a virus that is spread by insects who eat the fruit. The scientists were then able to figure out the genetic trait that would create resistance to the virus in papayas and allowed them to grow without any risks of getting the disease.



https://monsanto.com/innovations/biotech-gmos/q/what-happened-to-the-papayas-in-hawaii/

Anonymous said...

The Hawaiin Papaya was almost wiped between the 1940s and the 1990s from a disease called PRSV(papaya ringspot virus). A Hawaiin born scientist at Cornell named Dennis Gonsalves took a papaya and modified it's genes to be resistant to PRSV. This papaya is called the Rainbow papaya. Seeds of the rainbow papaya were planted as a trial. Seeds were also given to the small business farmers that lost the majority of their crops to PSRV. A few years later the seeds were available to be purchased. Within two years of the Rainbow papaya seeds being on the market, more than half of the papayas grown in Hawaii were Rainbow papayas. About a decade(10 years) later over 90% of all papayas grown in Hawaii were Rainbow papayas.

Source 1: https://foodinsight.org/how-gmo-technology-saved-the-papaya/

Source 2: https://biofortified.org/2012/06/rainbow/

Colby Mather said...

the papaya was almost wiped out do too the papaya ringspot virus. the virus started wiping out Hawaii papaya in 1940-1990. the populations of papayas when down almost 50% between 1993-2006. thanks to a group of scientist that studied gmo's papaya population has gone up 50% in 2 years. almost a deiced later the population has gone up 90%. GMO saved farmers by bringing back papayas.

https://gmoanswers.com/why-gm-papaya-story-personal-hawaii-local

https://foodinsight.org/how-gmo-technology-saved-the-papaya/

Anonymous said...

Gmos where created and used in papaya in hawaii first by deciding if genetic engineering was the most effective way to solve a papaya's problem. 2nd by identifying the gene. 3rd by removing the trait by a donor organism. Lastly by planting the new seed and testing it. Once it was all done there were 25 times more genetically modified fruit than non modified.





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CjsNWm4bj0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G-yUuiqIZ0

Corey H said...

Gmos where created and used in papaya in hawaii first by deciding if genetic engineering was the most effective way to solve a papaya's problem. 2nd by identifying the gene. 3rd by removing the trait by a donor organism. Lastly by planting the new seed and testing it. Once it was all done there were 25 times more genetically modified fruit than non modified.





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CjsNWm4bj0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G-yUuiqIZ0

big ev said...

GMO papaya is a genetically modified papaya in where people say is much more flavor. it is mostly used for help to the plant for say keeping pests away and damage to the plant. it is said to boost the flavor and nutrition to make the plant much better in taste and health. In Hawaii there is something going around called the papaya ring spot virus they say that GMO will stop that from
happening .

Gracey said...

The ringspot virus from papaya almost totally wiped out the crop. Biotechnology is the only reason we can eat Hawaiian papaya, here is a quote from Dennis Gonsalves, the scientist that invented GMO papaya, " Without biotechnology There’s no papaya industry. Simple as that,". Dennis Gonsalves also developed a GM papaya, known as the Rainbow papaya, designed to be resistant to the virus. He and his team planted a trail of trees of Rainbow Papaya. Within 11 months the non-GMO papaya became infected with the virus. Here is a quote from the New York Times explaining what the tree looked like and how much papaya the had produced, "Standing dark green and papaya-laden, the trees provided 125,000 pounds of fruit per acre in a year; the conventional trees, stunted with yellowed, mosaic leaves, average 5,000 pounds.” GMO papaya has made a world difference to farmers.

Kyia said...

so pretty much there was a this virus that hit the papayas in Hawaii and then a scientist made a genetically modified papaya that they called a rainbow papaya. they did a test on an island called Puna and within 11 months the non gmo papaya was infected.

https://foodinsight.org/how-gmo-technology-saved-the-papaya/#

the legendary rose said...

Papaya had to be gmo'd because the Papayas were getting a disease to they had to do it.

Kaylee R said...

https://foodinsight.org/how-gmo-technology-saved-the-papaya/ The Popaya's ring spot virus nearly wiped out the popaya's. Within two years half of the popaya plants were GMO. A decade later 90 percent of the Popaya population was GMO.
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/06/26/gmo-papayas-saved-11-million-industry-set-off-political-storm-hawaii/ Dennic Gonsalves was the scientist who came up with the idea to vaccinate the popaya crop from the virus using genetic engineering. Him, Carol Gonsalves, and David R. Lee did it by opening the popaya genome and inserted a gene from the ring spot virus into its genetic code. After ten years of work the Gonsalves and David R. Lee created a popaya plant that was genetically resistant to the ring spot virus.