Re: hosta-open DIGEST V1 #618
- To: hosta-open@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: hosta-open DIGEST V1 #618
- From: i*
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 19:53:56 -0600
- References: <199911230801.CAA30691@lorien.mallorn.com>
At 01:34 PM 11/23/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>Dan:
>
>>As this technology gets more wide spread the likelihood of a hosta
>>finding itself in front of a gene gun gets higher and higher. Red
>>leaves on hostas can't be too far away.
>
>Would a transgenic hosta still be a hosta? I know and understand the
>benefits of genetic engineering, and also its danagers. While there
>is little chance that a transgenic hosta would end up unleashing some
>ultimate cataclysmic destruction of life on earth, I wonder which
>would be more enjoyable, the red leaved hosta developed naturally or a
>genetically engineered red leafed hosta? The potential for genetic
>engineering is almost unlimited, assuming we don't release into the
>environment some undesirable results, which is a LOT easier to do then
>many people think, and end up killing off ourselves.
>
>Joe Halinar
>
>Id love to be the one to develop a natural red leafed hosta, but, also,
hybridize
with a engineered hosta with red leaves, like six of one and a half
dozen of the other. indianabob
>
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