It's a natually occuring color sport that was fixed through selective breeding. That's a far cry from either hybridization or transgenic manipulation. In a message dated 12/15/2003 12:12:42 PM Eastern Standard Time, killiman at iquest_net writes: << If I am not mistaken the gold australe is a manmade verity. >> To join the AKA see http://www.aka.org/pages/join.html