"No living thing can produce the things that we can make by gene transfer," says Shaw J ei-fu, director of the Institute of Botany at the Academia Sinica. Moreover, gene transfer promises to make these things faster and cheaper. For example, plant photosynthesis requires only the simplest ingredients-sunlight and water is enough.
「植物體能合成的東西，是任何生物都辦不到的」，中研院植物所所長蕭介夫指出，植物光合作用所需的要素極其簡單，只要光和水就足夠了。