Hi John,
Thanks for the explanation. But for several years already I hear that antibiotic
genes are old fashioned and others are available. However, they are in still
there in every new field trial application. European Parliament did a good thing
in that it voted to phase them out by 2005. (but why so late?). I hope you can
tell me if a plant that suffered microbial and bacterial attacks is more likely
to attract damaging insects, fungi? Btw. for GE corn now the opposite is
claimed; since less insects are on the corn, less mycotoxins are found.
regards
wytze
John D'hondt wrote:
> FTC's (Frankenstein Technology Companies) do not take the antibiotic marker
> genes away after use because they can't. The tools to do this do not exist
> especially since they don't have a clue where this marker gene is located in
> the genome. I'm sure somebody could find out given ten years of time and
> unlimited funds, but since there is no money in this?
> I'm further sure that in a healthy living soil there are no great quantities
> of nitrate, phosphorus or potash freely floating about. But that instead
> plants have to get these foods from some living micro organism (most often
> by force I presume).
> And yes, plants take up factors from the soil that help them resist
> bacterial, fungal, viral and insect attack and vitamins (quite well known
> for vit B12) and other factors.
> All this makes that these "healthy" plants taste differently from the ones
> produced in the industrial chemical farming process. Once one his used to
> this food one could not eat anything else. On the other hand there are a lot
> of people around us who find them "too strong" (this is the expression in
> Ireland when something is disliked). Coupled to this I have made another
> observation. The physical condition of especially young people who eat fast
> food and chemically produced all the time can probably drop not much lower.
> They can hardly walk any more. On the other hand, I also know a few
> youngsters that eat exclusively organic and that appear in excellent
> condition
> (sorry, i just notice that i am in part replying to klaus wiegand's
> message )
> Regards
> John
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: wytze <geno@zap.a2000.nl>
> To: Keith Addison <gruno@att.net.hk>; <sanet-mg@cals.ncsu.edu>;
> <ban-gef@lists.greenbuilder.com>; <mail@icsenglish.com>;
> <jcummins@julian.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 11:31 AM
> Subject: OOPS. Re: Soil Microorganisms and Higher Plants
>
> > OOps, I made a mistake. The antibiotics do not function as insecticide but
> of course anti-microbial and bactericidal and help the plants to prevent
> diseases.
> > wytze
> >
> > wytze wrote:
> >
> > > I am studying this great book now and one thing especially struck me and
> that
> > > is the fact that plants take up antibiotics from soilorganisms and uses
> these
> > > as protection against insectattacks. I never understood why GE
> companies did
> > > not remove the antibiotic resistance genes. Am I wrong to think that
> this is
> > > really a dirty trick by the insecticide selling companies? Or does this
> show
> > > that these companies actually know nothing about the plants they mess
> around
> > > with?
> > > wytze
> > >
> > > Keith Addison wrote:
> > >
> > > > FYI, Steve Solomon has just uploaded this great book to the Soil and
> > > > Health Library. It's public domain, so you can download it.
> > > >
> > > > Krasil'nikov, N.A. "Soil Microorganisms and Higher Plants". Academy
> > > > of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow 1958. Translated in Israel by Dr. Y.
> > > > Halperin.
> > > >
> > > >
> http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010112Krasil/010112krasil.toc.html
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