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
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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
Batson
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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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