It's the slippery slope that makes people uncomfortable about such ideas. Most people would accept "upgrades" of the ecosystem of this kind.
But stuff that has no advantage for the organism (like harvesting toxins) will just breed out. This also limits the usefulness of such an approach.
Responding to the live-designers in the thread: There is the possibility for real improvements, like replacing native Rubisco with a bacterial variant.
Plants like that would be impossible to control (and a PR-disaster for DIY-bio).
On Saturday, November 22, 2014 4:49:34 AM UTC+1, Nico B. wrote:
A few of the projects that are being done at the maker space I go to for synbio classes are directed towards bioremediation through transgenic guerrilla gardening. We've been discussing the need for heavy monitoring to prevent propagation for the potential of ecosystem/food web disruption, but I'd like to hear more reasons for why and why not guerrilla garden transgenic species of grasses/shrubs for biodegradation of pollutants, sequestration of heavy metals in urban soils, ground water filtration, etc.
Thanks
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