Began searching when I noticed that my pole beans were all climbing
clockwise and a bind weed was winding in the other direction. (West of
Denver)

Was going to attempt a contact in the southern hemisphere but realize
now that it would have to be the same bean seed.

Ray Bisque

I would like info on low cost instruments used for measuring media gel
strengths.

Thanks,
Indra
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Indra S. Harry, Ph.D
Group Leader, Safflower Transformation
SemBioSys Genetics Inc.
110, 2985-23rd Avenue NE
Calgary, Alberta, Canada T1Y 7L3
Phone:...

My father in law gave me a plant almost a year ago and I cannot find any one that can identify it. When I got it he had it in a small plastic bottle with water, it looked unkempt so I cleared the dead branches and planted it in soil in a small pot. It didn't seem to like much sun as it would kind of wither up. It has thin fuzzy stalks with small oblong leaves. Every few weeks the entire outside of it turns brown and sheds like a snake. I thought it was dying the first time it happened but it seems to be getting longer in the stalk, and turns light green when the outside sheds off. I am down to just a few stalks and would like to either figure out a way to reroot this one or buy more. Please help, I don't have any pictures but could take some to show you if you need me to.

Recently my Mum has sprayed the garden with a certain weedkiller that
gets to the roots. After a while as I was walking in the garden with
bare feet my left foot was brushed by the nettles and got stung.
However, the pain lasted throughout the day and into the night, whereas
normally the pain wouldn't last for a minute. I was concerned whether
this continued pain was due to the weedkiller, and whether the poison
could have absorbed it and entered my body.

Would this be valid? Should I take any further action?

Thanks

Dear fellow workers in the mines of science,

I have been tryingto work with the pCambia1201 plasmid for the lastseveral weeks, but ithas been driving my lab a bit crazy. My problemis that it does not wantto digest with most endonucleases we've tried.I simply can not use theplasmid if I can't cut it, so I have aproblem. It was suggested to meto try transferring the plasmid to DH5cells, which I did to no avail--the resultant plasmid still does notcut with almost every enzyme in mylibrary. I was finally able to getit to cut with XhoI and PvuII, buteven those were only partialdigests.

Does anybody have anyadvice on working with this thing? The literaturedoes not suggest thatthere is even a problem, and the group thatengineered it could onlysuggest "trying all your enzymes until youfind one that cuts", which isa bit impractical.

Thanks for any help,

Jim Campanella

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James J. Campanella,
Associate Professor,
Department of Biology and Molecular Biology
Montclair State University
1 Normal Avenue
Montclair, NJ 07043

Alternate email address: jcamp@alumni.uchicago.edu

Ph: 973-655-4097
Fax: 973-655-7047

YLE A-piste 07.05.2008 aika mieliinpainuvaa tykitystä. Tähän asti ministeri
Jan Vapaavuori on yybereimmin vaatinut kaiken taloustoiminnan keskittämistä
härskimmin painoin pelkästään Helsinkiin. Ainoastaan ydinvoiman hän toki
haluaa niin halvatun kauas Helsinkistä, kuin mahdollista. Vapaavuori haluaa
kaiki asukkaat pois maakunnista Helsinkiä lihottamaan, samoin talousalan
edustajat, kuin erityisesti kaupat myös.. .Öö.. .tai siis tähänasti halusi!

Kun Keskisen kauppa alkoi imuttamaan helsinkiläisostajia ei homma ole
herroille ollut yhtään "kivaa". Ja Keskistä vastaan on helsinkiläismahakkaat
keskittäneet jo pitkään ja hartaasti sellaista loanloiskintaa...

The possibility of creating carnivorous plants large enough to eat
people is intriguing. While, disappointingly, man-eating plants are
currently confined to the halls of sci-fi, it seems like it should be
possible to create carnivorous species that are large enough to chow
down on YOU! If we genetically re-engineered existing meat-eating
flora in regards to growth-control then maybe we can have REAL "Little
Shops of Horrors" in the future?

There is a claim that genetically-reengineered housecats are now
available, the four-foot long Ashera cat. However, there is
controversy over this how this over-$20,000 per kitty species came
about and whether or not the creator and his company are perpetrating
a fraud.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/428735/the_ashera_cat_controversy.html?page...

But, regardless of the validity of the Ashera Cat claim, there
certainly is ever-growing activity in genetic reengineering. For
instance, reengineered lawn grass is creating a controversy due to the
fact that it has "gotten out of the lab."

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.04/turf.html

Dear Plant Researchers,

The Plant Metabolic Network (PMN) is pleased to announce the initial
launch of its official web site (http://plantcyc.org) and the first
release of PlantCyc, a comprehensive biochemical pathway reference
database dedicated to the plant kingdom.

The PMN is an NSF-funded collaborative project among databases and
biochemists with a common goal to build a broad network of plant
metabolic pathway databases. The central database of PMN, PlantCyc...

Hello everyone,

Over the past few years my lab has assembled a collection
of ~3600 bioactive small molecules tailored for use in plant
chemical genomics. We have shared this library with
several labs to assist their screening initiatives and this email
is to notify any interested users of its availability.

More information about the library can be found at:
http://cutlerlab.blogspot.com/2008/05/latca.html

Apologies for the repost, a problem with the link on the
last email was reported.

Sean Cutler

Hello everyone-

Over the past few years my lab has assembled a collection
of ~3600 bioactive small molecules tailored for use in plant
chemical genomics. We have shared this library with
several labs to assist their screening initiatives and this email
is to notify any interested users of its availability.

More information about the library can be found at:
http://cutlerlab.blogspot.com/2008/05/latca.html.

Thanks-

Sean Cutler