Just cleaning up old email. This was from February.

Liza May:

>>..... from "Nature" magazine:
>> Researchers identified a plant gene that helps a small
>>flowering plant called Arabidopsis take up iron from the soil
>>efficiently. By transferring the gene to other plants,
>>researchers might be able to help them live in soil that is
>>poor in iron. The new gene could also make crop plants
>>richer in iron and ease iron deficiencies in the people who
>>eat them.


Wouldn't this just temporarily help, but cause the soil to
become even more depleted, eventually making the situation
worse than before?

Cheers,
Martha