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  • From: "Del Williams" <delannw AT dlogue.net>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Glow in the dark spuds
  • Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 08:31:37 -0600

ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Betsy, It is genetic modification.&nbsp; Injection is probably not the most appropriate use of the language to describe the method.&nbsp; The would have to use a GMO technique (as oppsed to traditional hybridization methods) to produce these potatoes because a jellyfish would never cross with a potato - even if potatoes grew in the sea.</FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>As an aside:</FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>This is just nuts.&nbsp; I wonder about the obsession with using aquatic species to cross with plants.&nbsp; Flounders with tomatoes or squash.&nbsp; Jellyfish with potatoes.&nbsp; What next?&nbsp; I wish they'd do something really useful like produce a carnivorous tomato plant.&nbsp; You know.&nbsp; One that would lure tomato hormworms and eat them.&nbsp; I might go for that.</FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Seriously, is there something special about fish genes that make them especially suitable for plant development.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>This is probably the wrong forum for a serious discussion about that.&nbsp; I just wonder.</FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Del Williams</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Farmer in the Del</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Clifton IL</FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV></BODY></HTML>


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