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

> 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

To be fair, there are two sides to this project:

* Inducible pigmentation (with pluggable induction)
* Circadian analogue output (with pluggable target)

They could start with either, but one of them will excite their support
base and show tangible progress, the other won't.

And, if you're working on a pluggable pigmentation system, you might as
well start with a pretty straightforward induction system like ethanol.

I learned from Keira and Nikolai during SynbioAxlr8r by the way, that
while Anthocyanins are best known for blue, many of them appear red.
They had even made up some pretty pimp-looking cocktail sugar with
anthocyanins that (being dehydrated) had a very mild colour, but when
added to a drink created a bloom of intense reds or blues. So I don't
think they're being dishonest on the anthocyanin score.

On 05/03/15 02:13, Nathan McCorkle wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:44 PM, Raymond McCauley
> <raymondmccauley@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.
>

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