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From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Tomatoes from Space ?
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Date: 30 Sep 90 15:07:42 GMT
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In article <26ff7c8d-1b7.1sci.space.shuttle-1@vpnet.chi.il.us> cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (Gordon Hlavenka) writes:
>>Many will remember that a one of the experiments in a (recent ?) space
>>shuttle flight involved exposing some tomato seeds to space conditions...
>Sorry I don't have more details, but the Chicago Tribune reported a week or
>two ago that a "space tomato" won first prize at a state fair.  (Not the
>Illinois fair, though.)  So _some_ of the plants did OK.

   I remember reading after the seeds were all distributed that somebody had
done an analysis of the seeds, discovered that ... and that no fruit from 
them should be eaten...  There was a big to do, and many schools returned 
theirs seeds, and the program was changed such that the teacher was supposed
to remove all flowers so no fruit could be produced (in public labs/schools).
al



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