an interesting article on the fruit hybridization business is at fortune.com. To read the entire article, go to: http://www.cnn.com and scroll to the bottom, use link under "Fortune" magazine, article title "Is Designer Fruit the next big thing?". You can access it directly through fortune.com, but unless you are a subscriber, you might only get to read half the article. The access route above - via cnn.com, lets you read the whole article for free. Tom Billings