From: Brian Caldwell <education@nofany.org>
Date: Wed May 12, 2004 09:08:25 AM US/Eastern
To: "road's end farm" <organic101@linkny.com>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] GMO apples
Hi Rivka,
I think that general consumer rejection due to continued discussion about
GMOs can stop the release of these, as it apparently has GMO wheat. I
don't know where the anti-fungal genes they have used in apples came from;
probably not from apples. Anti-fungal genes inserted into chestnut trees
came from poison frogs.
I'm sure that stooling a GMO plant would be considered an infrigement of
patent rights. As for who owns the progeny of GMOs, ask Monsanto.... I
think the apporach of not allowing patents on life forms is a good one.
See you,
Brian
At 11:02 AM 5/8/2004 -0400, you wrote:
Brian Caldwell
On Saturday, May 8, 2004, at 10:18 AM, Brian Caldwell wrote:
Thanks Rivka,Any ideas as to how to stop the release?
I hadn't seen this, but I knew they were doing this work. [ , , , ] The particularly bad part of this is that these genes will flow out into
the pool of wild trees, and irrevocably contaminate that gene pool.
I hope they are not released!
Brian
One of the other people on the NAFEX list also raised the patents issue
in response, as well as asking a question that I don't know if you have
the answer to:
1) Where is this gene which "encodes for lytic proteins" in malus,
coming from? Is it an isolated malus gene or
one from another plant/animal family?
2) If I stool the rootsock of a GM malus, is that breaking the patent
law? If the GM tree cross pollinates with
another tree that is not GM who owns patent on the seeds? What about
"sport" patent rights on a GM tree?
At 09:21 PM 5/7/2004 -0400, you wrote:
Hi Brian -- I got this on the NAFEX list and thought you'd be
interested; don't know if you've already seen this.
Begin forwarded message:
Date: Fri May 07, 2004 10:12:38 AM US/Eastern
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [NAFEX] GMO apples
Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
a few years ago Cornell figured out how to gentically engineer known
apple cultivars [ . . . ]
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