On 29/10/08 17:39, in article
, "Judith in
France" wrote:

On Oct 29, 3:30 pm, Pam Moore wrote:
Yesterday a newly developed purple tomato hit the news. It has been
genetically modified with cells from antirrhinum, and has been shown
to be effective against cancer in mice.

I mentioned it to a friend in Australia and she sent me the following
web site.http://home.iprimus.com.au/ironbarkbob/seed/

The bit I noticed was the "Photo comp" item at the top left. Who was
it posted the freaky tomato? It might be worth sending in!
It also says "seed posted world wide" and "free postage".

Pam in Bristol

It was the JI who dunnit! Edward has friends who work there, it is a
big breakthrough, although it is still early days for human trials.

Judith

It doesn't look terribly attractive, does it? I think we have strongly
implanted notions of what colour food should be and it's quite hard to get
past those expectations. Mind you, if it really does what it says on the
tin, I think many people will be more than happy to eat it.

We sent them our Passiflora John Innes for their collection and to research
it. To our delight they've confirmed it really is that Passiflora. David
Poole and Ray have always said so because Ray knew who had given to him and
he'd worked in the temperate house at Kew after being at the JI and David
recognised it as being impossible to mistake! But other 'experts' said it
wasn't the real thing which according to them, had been 'lost' for years, so
sucks to them!! It's been happily living here all the time! ;-)
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