Vergil and Nanotechnology

"In 2003 the German company Icon Genetics encoded Georgics 2.109 into the genome of an Arabidopsis thaliana plant:  Nec vero terrae ferre omnes omnia possunt, 'Neither can every soil bear every fruit.'"

http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v21/n3/box/nbt0303-224_BX1.html

Mouse-ear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana):