Purists Sniff As Stink-Free Durian Fruit Seeks A Fan Base: A Thai scientist has been working for 25 years to bre...

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Purists Sniff As Stink-Free Durian Fruit Seeks A Fan Base: A Thai scientist has been working for 25 years to bre...

Enlarge momovieman /Flickr.com Durians for sale at a Singapore market. momovieman /Flickr.com Durians for sale at a Singapore market. To lovers of the world's most odoriferous fruit, something doesn't smell right in Thailand's durian country, where a fruit breeder with the Horticulture Research Institute is in the midst of creating a line of durian varieties that lacks what some say is the most intriguing aspect of this large and spiky, creamy-fleshed tree fruit — its smell. Dr. Songpol Somsri has spent 25 years trying to eliminate the durian fruit's renowned gym socks-and-gasoline stench. He has crossed 90-plus durian varieties and, with a discerning nose, selected their offspring. Generation by generation, he has bred away the odor. And he thinks he's close to putting it on the market. When NPR last checked in with scientist Songpol Somsri, back in 2007, he had just intr...

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