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  • From: Aozotorp AT aol.com
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Glow in the dark spuds
  • Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 19:34:25 EST


In a message dated 12/18/00 4:02:39 PM Mountain Standard Time,
jeff AT emarketfarm.com writes:

<< re: "Glow in the Dark Spuds called 'Agriculture of the Future'"

Dear Friends,

I've been following this list-serve for quite sometime and have come
to appreciate the "grassroots" comments posted here by farmers nationwide.
As an agricultural journalist and direct-marketing small farmer, I
thought the following story (which just came across the AP wires) would
be of interest to this group. The full story is posted below.
I'm working on a follow-up story right now indicating reaction from
farmers. If you would like to make a comment, please e-mail me ASAP.
Keep your comments to three sentences or less (for newspaper format) and
include your full name, location of your farm and the type of operation
(veg, fruit, etc.).

Best regards,

Jeff Ishee
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http://www.emarketfarm.com
Resources for farmers' markets and market farmers
info AT emarketfarm.com
P.O. Box 52
Middlebrook, VA 24459
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Monday December 18 10:47 AM ET

New Super-Spud Glows Green to Ask for Water

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have pioneered a genetically modified
``super potato'' which glows when it needs water, the head of the
project said on Monday.

Researchers at Edinburgh University injected potato plants with a
fluorescence gene borrowed from the luminous jellyfish aequorea
victoria, which causes their leaves to glow green when dehydrated.

``This is an agriculture of the future,'' Professor Anthony Trewavas
told Reuters. ``We were trying to design a way of monitoring the
resources within a field and decided it was the plant itself which has
that information.''

The potatoes are not intended to be eaten but would act as
''sentinels,'' planted beside the commercial crop to alert a farmer that
the rest of his field needed watering. >>


Well, that last one better change! Seems we are getting corn to eat that we
should not have!




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