Jacob and I did some stuff regarding bioremediation using regular plants a few years ago. For example, some plants (I recall indian mustard as one of the seeds) will collect heavy metals, and they can be pulled up and destroyed to remediate the area.
Here's a paper on mushroom inoculation of diesel and heavy oil contaminated soil with useful methods:
I think your biolab should focus on existing bioremediation techniques that already work well. If you absolutely have to try and improve on an organism and have it immediately useful, maybe try setting up artificial environments for plants, fungus, or bacteria and seeing if you can select for better bioremediation characteristics.
Also what space is this with the transgenic gardening class? I'd like to trade a few emails.
Also what space is this with the transgenic gardening class? I'd like to trade a few emails.
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 2:42 AM, Tom Hodder <tom@limepepper.co.uk> wrote:
--On 22 November 2014 at 03:49, Nico B. <perpetuatetheimaginary@gmail.com> wrote:I'd like to hear more reasons for why and why not guerrilla garden transgenic speciesa) One of the benefits and safe guards of diybio is that it is an open method of science. Unlawfully releasing transgenic species would necessarily have to be a secret activity, and it would be impossible to obtain sufficient community assessment of the risk without giving away the intention of the activity.b) The pressing need for solutions to environmental problems suggests that we need a radical, rather than progressive review of overall strategy. However what we do not want are radical tactics, which undermine the validity of diybio. I feel that extremism from the left are just as undesirable as extremism from right wing types.c) I note that you email account is "perpetuate the imaginary", and therefore this might just be a hypothetical. But if your first sentence is a true statement, then I would have serious concerns about the people who attend your maker space. A deliberate GMO release would almost certainly be a political rather than scientific act, and this sort of political extremism is at best a distraction, and at worst will interfere with positive scientific progress in diybio.
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