Hybridized Plants.--Includings AG's
- Subject: Hybridized Plants.--Includings AG's
- From: I*@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:49:11 EDT
In a message dated 7/30/99 2:23:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
SteveS012@aol.com writes:
<< Subj: Re: Bug Free AG Plant!
Date: 7/30/99 2:23:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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They did this recently (with the BT gene process) with corn, which was
bigger
news than anything else here. There is big controversy over it though, some
people saying that it is dangerous to genetically mess with food. They also
mentioned that overseas in Europe, they all think we are insane. But we have
been doing stuff with corn for years (the se and sh2 genes and all that).
They did find out that the pollen of the BT enhanced corn was deadly if
butterflies ate it, and who knows what else. So who knows what it would do
to
the pollen of pumpkins, or the leaves, or anything else. Messing with nature
genetically can be dangerous, unlike messing with it by enhancing natural
selection, which is basically what we are doing to get pumpkins over 1000
pounds!
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On a slightly different tangent, we have bred certain vegetables and grains
to enhance commercial properties. We would like to have tomatoes that ripen
all at once on a plant instead of over a period of 2 months, By hybridizing
to enhance commercial properties like bigger fruit or higher yields, we are
winding up with strains that are more susceptible to problems than thier
ancestors. That is one reason why there has been an effort retain some seeds
of the original plants. Some of the new species do not have the vigor of
their predecssors.
We may be doing the same with AGs. Selection for size and weight may produce
plants more temperamental and less resistant to the various problems we seem
to encounter.
In a sense, we are reversing the process of natural selection as far as AGs
are concerned. No real problem here since AGs are raised more for fun than
food.
I, at least, do not propose to eat any part of any that I might grow. After
all,
don't most of us feel our pumpkins are akin to family?. (:>)
INNEALTOIR
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