RE: [DIYbio] Glowing plants for sale "Starlight Avatar"

I hear you on the whole patent issue and I see this as more of a
publicity stunt to get buzz around. Optimizing transgene expression in
anything else but tobacco and arabidopsis is going to take much longer
to tweak mainly due to regeneration time and the fact that he probably
optimized everything to work in N. tabacum. Coming from a few years of
experience with plant engineering I can say its not a simple task and
often involves scrapping weeks of work...like most projects in general.
If there is enough hype, his investors will be happy and continue
funding. This is just speculation but Im sure the final product will be
purely ornamental like poinsetta or some tree that has no agrivalue
beyond pretty and O2 factory. In retrospect choosing tobacco may have
been ill thought in terms of market breadth as you stated. I had no
clue there are regulations on tobacco. Here in the US you can do as you
wish...if its transgenic you'll have to wait in line at the EPA like
everyone else and field test for two years.

Sebastian S. Cocioba
CEO & Founder
New York Botanics, LLC
Plant Biotech R&D From: Cathal Garvey
Sent: 1/15/2014 5:19 PM
To: diybio@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [DIYbio] Glowing plants for sale "Starlight Avatar"
Patents, eh? They make you complacent and slow, and you only think to
ship a real product when someone more driven than you bothers to.

And in this case, their "real product" is a tobacco plant, regulated for
ownership in many parts of the world and agriculturally relevant in
others, implying more stringent requirement for GMO regulatory
classification.

I'm *not* sold on the Glowing Plants project, I must say, but I'm even
less sold on "Bioglow"'s offering.

On 15/01/14 21:36, Sebastian Cocioba wrote:
> That's BioGlow's first sale. They are the patent owners that the
> kickstarter team is "borrowing" from. This is the company whose owner
> published evidence of the first autoluminescent plant back in 2010
>
> Sebastian S. Cocioba
> CEO & Founder
> New York Botanics, LLC
> Plant Biotech R&D
> ------------------------------
> From: SC <stacy734@yahoo.com>
> Sent: 1/15/2014 4:19 PM
> To: diybio@googlegroups.com
> Subject: [DIYbio] Glowing plants for sale "Starlight Avatar"
>
> Hi everyone,
> I see that someone is selling glowing tobacco plants, called "Starlight
> Avatar." Does anyone know if this Is this any relation to the folks that
> had the Kickstarter project for glowing Arabidopsis?
>
> http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/01/heres-your-chance-to-own-a-glow-in-the-dark-plantand-soon/
>
>
>

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