Georg Tremmel and Shiho Fukuhara plan to grow trees that store the genetic traits of humans. It would mean a person’s DNA could live on, with the tree, as a memorial for life, or ‘transgenic tombstone’.

from the biopresence website: The goal of Biopresence is to introduce human characteristics to a plant, without changing the genes of the resulting plant.

Shiho asks: How will the behaviour towards this tree change? Can this tree be a monument and memorial to someone? Will you eat an apple from your grandma tree?