Strange 'super products' by Burbank plant masters

Under the "miraculous" hands of scientists, many unique new inventions about the method of breeding plants have been born. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Burbank's "dharma master" created more than 800 types of vegetables, flowers, fruits and had a very special gardening method - both slightly Darwinian, and slightly directed by Thomas Edison.

Although he encountered many failures, there is a fact that we are currently enjoying his many inventions and innovations. Let's list the foods that are "allowed" by Burbank.

Potato Russet

A variant of that potato variety is used in many things from potato chips to potato chips.

Luther Burbank's career began by inventing a legume fruit growing on a garden-grown potato. Most people will not care about the fruits they pass because they cannot be eaten but Burbank has read many books by Charles Darwin - the father of evolutionary theory.

Curious by Darwin's idea of ​​each of the plants contained in that variety of possibilities for transformation, he planted 23 seeds of the fruit they passed. But among them, only 2 plants produce potatoes and one of them is really special. It produces a ton of potatoes with a thin brown shell and white intestine.

Today, a variation of that potato variety (resulting from random mutations in sweet potato fields) is used in many things from tater tots to fries. I still eat at fast food stores.

Cactus is not prickly

Burbank took two decades to remove the thorns from the cactus trunk.

As the name suggests, this is a cactus without spines. Burbank took two decades to remove the thorns from the cactus trunk and he admitted that the process was a real challenge. He shared that, for more than 5 years, the flowering season for him was a hard and even painful time, day and night.

Burbank hopes that prickly cactus flowers will turn the desert into a place where cattle can graze on it. Prickly cacti need to be well cared for, watered often and don't like cold. This is a cactus that cannot live in the desert.

Strawberry has peach flavor

This special strawberry is called toukun ichigo.

These special strawberries are called toukun ichigo , assembled from the word toukun meaning "peach flavor" , while ichigo is "strawberry". They are much larger in size than normal strawberries. The outside color is lighter than that of regular strawberries, while the inside is white and not the usual berry red color of strawberries.

Toukun ichigo is sold simultaneously in supermarkets in Shinjuku and Tokyo prefectures as well as other regions with the price of 1,296 JPY (about 232 thousand VND). At the beginning of the test, the strawberry will have a peach-like flavor, but later, the more you chew it, the more it will taste and shape the strawberry. Although fruits in Japan are very expensive, toukun ichigo with special flavor and quality often runs well in Valentine.

Shasta

Shasta chrysanthemum was introduced in 1901, after 17 years of research.

Shasta chrysanthemum is white, petals are large and bloom longer than regular daisies. Flower plants are grown by cross-pollination of daisy daisy with British daisies. The best plants are selected and crossed with Portuguese daisies.

The breeding process lasts about 6 years, but the petals are not white enough. Breeding continues with Japanese chrysanthemum flowers. Shasta chrysanthemum was introduced in 1901, after 17 years of research.

Tomato hybrid potatoes

This is not a genetically modified plant, but is produced by transplantation.

TomTato cultivars are harvested at the same time with 500 cherry tomatoes and many white potatoes. TomTato is like a normal tomato tree. However, when pulling the plants out of the soil, white potatoes can be seen growing from the roots. This is not a genetically modified plant, but is produced by transplantation.

Dream of plum

This fruit has intestines like plums and smells like apricots.

Plumcot is a half-apricot, half-plum fruit, a hybrid of Japanese plum and ordinary apricot tree. This fruit has intestines like plums and smells like apricots. Previously, no one thought that they could cross these two plants.

Paradox dog

This type of walnut is a hybrid between California black walnut and British walnut.

Burbank has developed walnuts with thin fruit pods, a large fruit pod and higher yields. But his greatest success was not on the discovery of walnuts but on walnut trees. This type of walnut is a hybrid between California black walnut and British walnut.

When he planted seeds of that hybrid, it grew so quickly that it overwhelmed other walnut plants. For 15 years, Paradox walnut can be as high as 18m, the trunk is approximately 0.6m in diameter. Normally, other walnut plants take up to 50 - 60 years to grow to this level.