David Honig wrote:
>
> At 06:42 AM 9/1/00 -0400, Steven Furlong wrote:
>> <oranges with THC>
>
> I think this is a net.legend
Could be. If so, a major news service was taken in, at least briefly.
Not that that's never happened before.
>, the plant's synthesis of that complex
> molecule would require porting a number of enzymes and getting
> them to work together. Assuming the precursor chemistry is there, and I
> doubt it is in oranges. I believe the current record is for something
> like two or three genes (one may have been a reporter?) moved
> cross-species. (To add vitamin A precursor to rice??)
Uh, right. My knowledge of bio-chem, geneering, and so on is
regrettably lacking. (I cry the eternal plaint of other claims on my
time, but that doesn't alleviate the ignorance.)
Ta,
SRF
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