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Coffee Bean Gene Mapped
brian6string writes "According to this article at ABC News Online (Australia), scientists in (where else?) Brazil say they have created the first complete map of the genetic structure of the coffee plant and Brazil's Agriculture Minister says the country will now work to develop a 'super coffee.'"
Make it produce 20 times the caffiene of a normal bean. Then it can compete with brazils other export the coca plant.
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More competition for Java
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They MUST be infringing on SCO IP, somewhere, somewow!
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
Not to be outdone, the Columbian Ministry of Agriculture announced a new project to map the genetic make up of the Coca Plant. The ministry wasn't specific but has indicated that it plans to create super “something.”
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Caffeine-free coffee! How dare they!?
a soccer player genome will be next
My only concern - will we have to patch our coffee pots?
By enabling intergenetic breeding, the genes from a cocoa plant can be placed direclty into coffee beans, alongside genes from a cow.
Even better, how about doing research for gene therapy so that my body makes it's own caffiene =)
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He must be one pissed mofo to have scientists work on beans.
and I quote from beavis & butthead
"It is in these hills that Juan Valdez and his trusty goat gather coffee beans every morning."
I just tried this new super coffee, and it's like a koala crapped a rainbow in my brain! They should call it Stimutacs.
I'm betting that they add a ton of caffeine, then splice it with genes from tobacco, coca, and poppies, and make the most addictive substance known to man.
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I'm sorry, but the idea of a cow's teat, full of frappacino, growing out of my chest, doesn't seem like that good an idea....
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