depends on your definition of genetically modified. you’d be hard pressed to find any plant that hasn’t been selectively bred, spliced and adapted by humans.
depends on your definition of genetically modified. you’d be hard pressed to find any plant that hasn’t been selectively bred, spliced and adapted by humans.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
That’s a disingenuous argument. You can’t selectively breed an completely foreign gene into an organism. I can’t believe this even has to be said, but I guess the GMO lobby gets to people more than I thought.
knightly@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
Yes you can, it just takes a lot more effort to get the right random mutation.
Doxatek@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Good luck breeding a plant until it replicates jellyfish DNA for fluorescence.
knightly@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
phys.org/…/2025-06-fish-biofluorescence-evolved-m…
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
No one lobbied me lol. They cross bred a petunia with a mushroom. It’s roughly the same concept as when humans bred maize.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
No they didn’t crossbred it. Fungi and plants are so far apart in the tree of life that suggesting this is ludicrous. You can’t get a fungal spore and place it in a petunia’s flower and get a hybrid.
DNA manipulation in a lab and selective breeding are fundamentally different. It’s silly to try to compare both.
Doxatek@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Not really. They transformed plant cells in a lab with GFP from a mushroom and established a stable transgenic line. This can’t be done without modern techniques. Not the same as breeding them