Artist-in-Residence
Ornamental Plant Breeding for the 21st Century: UO lecture 12 to 1 Friday
October 29, 2009
Here is another Machine in the Garden Lecture by George Gessert. 12 to 1 at the White Stag
Event Room, 70 couch street portland.
For the lecture Ornamental Plant Breeding for the 21st Century, Gessert will discuss past and current uses of biotechnology to create new kinds of ornamental plants. Oregon is playing an important role in these efforts because of the red iris project, initiated by Cooleys Irises in Silverton. Engineered ornamentals such as the red iris raise many questions, but he will focus on just one: what aesthetic criteria or assumptions are shaping the new plants? Answers to this question suggest that the time is long overdue for ornamental plant breeding to beconsidered an art.
Here is a link to more information: poster
