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  • From: road's end farm <organic101@linkny.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Plum Pox information sources
  • Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:39:47 -0500


On Monday, February 9, 2004, at 10:57 PM, Rodney Eveland wrote:

The people who genetically modify plants to get a desired result have
already developed a PPV resistant plum. Interestingly enough, if you
use google and search on a lot of common serious plant diseases and
add the word biotechnology to your search you will find that they are
trying to solve many of the major diseases by using genetc
modification. I don't know where this will take us, but I'm hoping for
a tasty, zone 3, indeterminate, perennial tomato that produces half a
bushel of ripe tomatoes by the 4th of July in all of zone 4 and is
resistant to every known tomato disease.

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In addition to other comments made on this list: judging by previous behaviour of the companies currently working with this technology, if you give any seed to your neighbor (even inadvertently) you'll both wind up in court.

I agree also with those who are saying that, while the technology has promise, we don't know enough yet about how to use it safely or wisely. Among other things, we don't yet know how to consistently insert the new gene in a specific place in a chromosome; so problems can be caused by disruption of other genes that weren't intended to be changed.

--Rivka
Finger Lakes NY; zone 5 mostly





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