Re: [DIYbio] Color-Changing Flower -- Early Bird rewards available

There was a color changing plant project (Thale cress) with field trial already in 2003. It was meant for quality control in humanitarian demining activities and involved ARESA Biotech from Denmark. The plant was supposed to turn red if elevated levels of explosives had leaked from landmines into the soil indicating by the colour change the presence and positions of landmines. A truely nice idea. Unfortunately it did not work out at the time and an entertaining background report on the trials can be read here:

 http://nolandmines.com/ARESAPWSredplanttrials.htm

best

Heinrich

Hey, I'm the founder of Revolution

When we first made the video, the idea was to go straight for the punchline; you're giving money to build Petunia Circadia.  We came to the conclusion that we wanted to do something that was solidly and definitely achievable on a short timescale since that's been lacking in consumer biotech so far.  That meant that we had to pick a slightly less ambitious project to start (the white->red flower), but we still wanted to preserve the vision.

We've modified the video to more accurately reflect the current situation - take a look at tell us what you think: https://vimeo.com/121508228 We're a a little bit limited by the existing footage and the fact that our video guy has gone on vacation, but it should be a bit more accurate. 

On Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 9:13:37 PM UTC-5, Nathan McCorkle wrote:

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:44 PM, Raymond McCauley
<raymond...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Revolution Bio's genetically engineered color-changing flower campaign is up
> on IndieGoGo, and there are a limited number of early bird rewards of actual
> flowers available.
>
> http://igg.me/p/color-changing-flowers/x/369415

Seems just /slightly/ dishonest that they blab in the main video about
ANTHOCYANINS and circadian rhythms, only later in a video further down
to mention they are only working on ethanol-induction for white-to-red
color conversion... and then even later mention that starting work on
BLUE (anthocyanins) is a stretch goal.