Moving into production mode

[@MendicinoB]

Thank you for the update! :) I can't wait for my seeds. Don't sweat the delay. I'd rather the product be good and the research done right.

[@jorgeasalas]

I would like the roses to glow in blue or white

[@Tystros]

Thanks for the Video! Would you please explain this "Herbizid resistence"? Why would you have to make the plant resistent against herbizid? You said something about much higher "transformation efficiency", I dont really get what this means. And why would a plant with herbazid resistence "escape and cause a problem in the environment"? I guess there are many plants which are naturally resistent against certain herbazids, and as far as I know a glowing plant will have to use much of its energy for producing the light and as a result of this it will be naturally more weak then a normal plant, right?

[@TAXABiotechnologies]

Herbicide resistance. It allows us to select the cells which have been engineered.

[@Tystros]

Glowing Plant Thanks for the answer, but it didnt really answered my questions :P

[@bestbenwade]

***** I'm just a backer, but my understanding is this: When you add a desirable gene, you usually add it WITH ANOTHER gene attached to it. The second gene usually codes for resistance to a poison that would normally kill the cell. Why? When you add genes, you don't know how many cells are going to take the gene in, and you don't know how many will actually USE the gene properly. Let's say you create a 100 cells that you TRIED to add the genes to. Probably only a few have a working copy of the gene. So, you have two choices: 1) You can grow all 100 cells until they are old enough for you to test each one for the property that you're looking for, OR 2) you can add a poison-resistance gene, then try to kill all 100 cells. ONLY the cells that took up the genes (both the gene you want AND the poison-resistance gene) AND that express the genes (again, both genes) will live. That way you know that all the cells that lived are the ones you want (theoretically.)

[@TAXABiotechnologies]

Benjamin Wade ***** yes this Benjamin! The efficiency is less than 1 in a thousand cells that get our dna.

[@Tystros]

Benjamin Wade Thanks! Glowing Plant And why would a plant with herbazid resistence "escape and cause a problem in the environment"? I guess there are many plants which are naturally resistent against certain herbazids, and as far as I know a glowing plant will have to use much of its energy for producing the light and as a result of this it will be naturally more weak then a normal plant, right?

[@EricGus67]

How long will the seeds "keep" for if they arrive in say December .. I assume they will be still viable come spring?

[@TAXABiotechnologies]

If you store them correctly you can keep them for a while, certainly to spring.

[@kevinsherard294]

Do you have pictures that demonstrate the current prototype's luminosity?

[@TAXABiotechnologies]

yes, see www.glowingplant.com. Pictures are tricky however as we use a long exposure so it's hard to represent how the eye sees the plant.

[@Tystros]

So you now stop increase the luminosity more with your "directed evolution", because you now just work on getting the DNA with the different method into the plant?

[@TAXABiotechnologies]

No, we will use those improvements in version 2.0!

[@Tystros]

Glowing Plant How long will you improve version 2.0 before you ship it? Do you try to have a 1 year cycle of new plants, like with smartphones?

[@TAXABiotechnologies]

***** That's the plan, we'll see if the biology behaves :)

[@Tystros]

Glowing Plant When very many people have the plant and get seads, grow new plants and so on, there will of course be mutations and maybe one of your backer will someday have the luck to have a plant that is 100x brighter then the original one, right? How high is the probability that something like this will happen? I think you maybe should open some "contest" that the one who gets such a improved version out of mutation will get 10.000$ or whatever :D

[@TAXABiotechnologies]

***** 100x is unlikely, as we test for mutations in bacteria and that would mean we missed one. it is possible though, and I love the idea of a competition to improve it!