Re: That *gene* thang again......
Some of this is inevitable. I don' t have much use for a blue carnation, but I
wouldn't mind being able to
grow peaches that tasted and smelled like mangoes (papayas?). Something that
could only be
accomplished by gene splicing (if it ever could). Afterall, there isn't a
whole lot "natural" about some of the palnts we
have been breeding for a couple thousand years.
(How's that for controversey?)
Randall, Rod wrote:
> I don't know about the rest of you folks but it kinda
> takes the heart out of gardening for me to see biotechnology
> (good or bad) developing new flowers, colours, fragrances
> etc to order. Taken to an extreme you could theoretically place an
> order for a custom made garden plant sourced from a laboratory
> in some industrial estate.
>
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