5 Jul 2003 14:16:18 -0700 Martin Hodson wrote:

Yes, plants (legumes) do have leghemoglobin. It is actually about ten
times better at moppping up oxygen than ours. The enzyme responsible
for nitrogen fixation in the Rhizobia bacteria in the root nodules is
very sensitive to oxygen and has a half-life of about 30 minutes in
air. Most people reckon that leghaemoglobin is only partly responsible

for keeping oxygen away from nitrogenase, and that the architecture of

the nodules is more important.
Best Wishes,
Martin Hodson

This issue of leghemoglobin versus hemoglobin is an interesting test
case
for my old problem of whether possible or impossible for a human innate
carbonfibre skeleton system.

Put directly-- if plants can have an innate hemoglobin production, then
I would
say by reasonability that animals can have a innate carbonfibre skeleton
system
some distant future date.

But I am not quite sure whether this leghemoglobin is 100% produced by
the
plant or whether the symbiotic relationship of bacteria to plant
produces the
leghemoglobin.

And it appears that hemoglobin is iron based whereas leghemoglobin is
magnesium based. So there may be a Quantum Inverse or duality that is
impossible to alter. If that is true that it is impossible for plants to
make
hemoglobin vice leghemoglobin then the changing of a calcium based
skeleton system to a carbonfibre skeleton system is also to be
impossible
to do.

So, if a army of biotech engineers were given the assignment of
engineering
a plant that can make hemoglobin vice leghemoglobin and this army of
engineers finds it impossible. Then it is reasonable to say that in the
future
it will be not just difficult but impossible to ever have a human that
has an
innate carbonfibre skeleton system.

P.S. It is with pleasure to see that iron and magnesium are Quantum
duals
between the animal and plant kingdoms.

Archimedes Plutonium,
whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots
of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies