User talk:Normsleep

Welcome to Wikipedia. "Releasing rubisco with major modifications or an alternative into the environment would be quite daangerous as the more efficient product could out compete extant plants." Do you know of a pubished reference that could be cited to support this idea? Personally, I am skeptical about the chances of making a significant improvement in the enzyme. If it were possible, it would already have been done by evolution. --JWSchmidt 05:11, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree that evolution would have taken care of many minor tweaks. It cannot make huge jump to something quite different. Euan Nisbet and I mentioned this in Nature review paper after comparing rubisco to a qwerty typewriter. I am traveling and do not have ref. email me at norm@geo.stanford.edu and I will get you info.

A genetic engineer could start from scratch in principle and make something black that uses most of the photons. This cannot be done during lunch breaks, but would be dangerous if let out in the wild. This is what I was driving at. It is like Planet of the Apes inn that the danger is not lkely next week.

thank you

Norm Sleep