I thought most of the cleanliness issues of esrogim are from things that happen during or after the growing process, such as bletalach. So probably genetic editing wouldn't help with that?
That's possible. But גידול and עוקץ שקוע and color should be things you can control. And it might be possible to build market "value" just from the "clean DNA" angle itself.
Of course, all of this would make the economics of esrogim and irrational pressures on frum spending far worse. I'm certainly not promoting this kind of technology. :)
I thought most of the cleanliness issues of esrogim are from things that happen during or after the growing process, such as bletalach. So probably genetic editing wouldn't help with that?
That's possible. But גידול and עוקץ שקוע and color should be things you can control. And it might be possible to build market "value" just from the "clean DNA" angle itself.
Of course, all of this would make the economics of esrogim and irrational pressures on frum spending far worse. I'm certainly not promoting this kind of technology. :)