Re: Mosaic Viruses
I seriously doubt he created a resistant strain. Usually resistance is
engineered by biologists and is done by infecting a plant with a virus that
tells other viruses not to invade the plant. I don't think Steve has done
that and I don't think his plant has evolved quite that fast. And I sure as
heck don't want to try his seed out to see if it is resistant and I don't
want anyone near me doing it either since that may spread the virus to my
patch which we have seen Steve doens't care about.
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From: "res" <res@colfax.com>
Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Subject: Re: Mosaic Viruses
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 23:50:42 -0800
Barb, In my plan I wasn't thinking of a virus kill as much as flush it off
so the seeds could be harvested in a reasonable virus free area. That
would only work if the virus was not in the seed but on the pumpkin skin.
You have to realize that those virus are already evrywhere but are
inactive. If Steve is going to contain access to the seeds and grow out
the next generation to look for transmission of the virus by the seeds I
see no problem. We might get the benefit of a resistant strain. Roger
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