Bananas that don’t go brown could hit UK supermarkets after scientific breakthrough

The modification will have to pass Food Standards Agency checks before hitting shelves (Clive Gee/PA) - (PA Archive)

Bananas that don’t go brown could hit UK supermarket shelves thanks to a breakthrough in gene editing.

UK company Tropic Biosciences, based in Norfolk, has created the banana using a laboratory technique known as CRISPR-Cas9 to alter three genes that cause fruit to brown.