Wow, a GMO Wiki-apple! This should solve the global apple industry problems.
Have a look at the outstanding achievements (or dreams) of this Joe
Davis, DNA-artist on Wikipedia.
- Putting a map of the Milky Way into the ear of a transgenic mouse.
- /Poetica Vaginal/ - a signal sent to several nearby star systems
fashioned from the sound of vaginal contractions.
- Plans for channeling lightning bolts into a pulsed laser of almost
unparalleled energy and into towering sculptures that would change
the bolts' color and emit incredibly loud tones.
- Experiments with how E. coli respond to jazz, and other sounds,
with Andrew Zaretsky.
There is a picture of him in his lab coat and cool shades getting a
Golden Nica award for his "bacterial radio."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Davis_%28artist%29
This Wikipedia article about him will no doubt be first in his
Wiki-apple en-coding experiment. I expect Monsanto is already making
plans for this revolutionary Wiki-apple .... secret antidotes for
insects and fungus diseases that have been infected with contagious
Wiki-knowledge.
Kobo and Kindle will be developing software for their e-readers to be
able to read this Wiki-apple. Apple iPad may already have it in the works.
As for a 4,000 year old "strain" of apple. I suppose it could be
possible that a few existing cultivars could have been genetically
preserved for the past 4,000 years using grafting, since grafting goes
back 6,000 years in the Chinese culture. Court Pendu Plat, Pomme d'Api,
Calville Blanc d'hiver, Rambour and Reinette all exist today and are
recorded as far back as the 1500s and 1600s, and some are "believed" to
date back further to Roman times, as early as 300 BC. However, I have
never heard or read of any evidence of an apple cultivar dating back
4,000 years. I would certainly enjoy learning about it.
Daryl Hunter
Keswick Ridge, NB, Canada
On 14/05/2014 1:45 PM, Kushad, Mosbah M wrote:
Might be fitting to have title his project "Malus eccentric" rather
than "Malus ecclesia.".. Mosbah Kushad
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*Subject:* [apple-crop] apple as art
I don't know quite what to make of this 'New Yorker' article -
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/05/object-of-interest-the-twice-forbidden-fruit.html
- I think some things were lost/confused in the relating and retelling
of the story.
"He (Joe Davis) plans to use synthetic biology to insert a DNA-encoded
version of Wikipedia into the apple and create a living, literal tree
of knowledge..."
Anybody know what the "four thousand year old strain of apple" might
be? Nice picture of Cox Orange Pippin at the top...
David Doud
grower, IN - petal fall -
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