At 10:20 PM -0400 00/7/16, Judy and Dave wrote:
>Remember about 3 years ago, someone wrote about "Evergreen Sweet
>Clover"?

...

>Apparently the clover along the road (some might call them weeds)
>was the base for this Evergreen.  They did some genetic modification to
>make the bloom last longer and to make the plant be a perennial (that's
>instead of a biennial).  Apparently this work was done at Ohio State U.
>years ago and the company selling just recently figured an economical
>way to collect the seed.

        I would be very interested to learn any details of this 'genetic
modification'.  It may or may not have involved any artificial transgene
expts  -  and if not, it would be much better not to call it 'genetic
modification'.


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Robt Mann
consultant ecologist
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