Gene-Hacking Plants to Make Every Color of the Rainbow
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š Australian scientists are genetically engineering the grain of cotton to make it multicolored. In the future, vivid cotton may be the norm. Non-toxic, compostable clothes may also be the Holy Grail. "It's not as novel as you may imagine," says the author. "Sally Fox has produced varieties of longer fibers in a variety of colours," he says.
"Research has also been undertaken to make the world's ideal for commercial looms" "The future is now blue" is the theme for this week's episode of "Apparently This Matters" Scientists in Australia hope to use color genes from cotton plants to make multicolored cotton.
Synthetic dyes can contain formaldehyde and heavy metals that stain the skin and cause cancer. 300 million pairs of jeans are dyed per year in China, a gallon of poisonous runoff runs into rivers. The Australian Science Research Agency has a long-term initiative to manufacture synthetic cotton. The team is sampling thousands of plants, looking for proteins with just the right characteristics: stretchy, wrinkle-free, and maybe even waterproof.
"Colors in Cotton" is the latest in the popular culture of the science of dyeing cotton, with color genes, patterns, patterns and hues, and a history of successful color dyes. "We're looking at the structure of the cotton cell walls and using the latest tools in synthetic biology to develop the next generation of cotton fiber" "We have a whole bunch of different cotton plants growing; some of them with very long thin fibers, others like the one we call 'Shaun the Sheep' with short, woolly fibers"
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