On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:01:53 GMT, "Gordon Couger"
wrote:
"Torsten Brinch" wrote in message
.. .

Sorry, I meant to be understood as talking about seed potatoes there.
The point is that the development time for commercially available seed
potatoes with _Solanum bulbocastanum_ late blight resistance genetics
is not known, since none are commercially available. You can't use an
unknown development time to exemplify short development time, that
ought to be selfevident.

They aren't commercial stocks available because there is no rush to develop
GM potatoes becuse ass holes like you have successfully poisoned the market
and efforts have been directed to areas that are profitable.

So, is your statement, that the recent discovery and cloning of the RB
resistance gene and its subsequent insertion in experimental potatoes
in 2002, would have led to marketing of commercial varieties of
potatoes with the RB gene by 2003, if there had been a market for
them?