Hybrid Tomato Seed More Expensive Than Gold

BERURIM, ISRAEL - FEBRUARY 13: About 1,000 tiny seeds of hybrid cherry tomatoes, named Summer Sun and valued at about 1 USD each, are seen in a petrie dish as a Hazera Genetics laboratory worker sorts them at company headquarters February 13, 2007 at Berurim in central Israel. One kilogram of Summer Sun seeds developed by Hazera Genetics, an Israeli company specializing in breeding and marketing non-GMO hybrid varieties of vegetable and field crops, was sold to growers in Europe for 350,000 USD or about 268,800 Euros, more than sixteen times the price of gold. The warm-yellow colored fruit, with high concentrations of sugar which makes for a unique honey sweet taste, retails in Europe for about 23.50 USD, or about 18 Euros a kilogram. The seeds have been tinted blue, the company's trademark color. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)