| I'm just curious - "injecting" plants 
with a material doesn't sound like genetic engineering. Does anyone know if the 
"injecting" is actually "inserting" of the gene?   Betsy 
  ----- Original Message -----  Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 12:00 
  PM Subject: Re: Glow in the dark spuds At 12:02 AM -0500 12/19/00, Jeff <jeff AT emarketfarm.com> 
  wrote:
 
 >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.
 
 [snip]
 
 >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.
 
 [snip]
 
 Another article about these potatoes can be 
  found at
 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-52740,00.html
 and 
  makes no mention that these are intended to be "sentinel" plants.
 Is 
  Reuters right or not?
 
 --
 
 Bob 
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 rcb AT kc.rr.com                         
  Kansas City
 TCS - Mystic Fire 
  Priest              
  USDA Zone 
  5
 
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  the most controlled conditions, the experimental apparatus
 will do exactly 
  as it pleases.
 
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