No one lobbied me lol. They cross bred a petunia with a mushroom. It’s roughly the same concept as when humans bred maize.
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.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 week 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 6 days 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
knightly@pawb.social 1 week ago
Yes you can, it just takes a lot more effort to get the right random mutation.
Doxatek@mander.xyz 6 days ago
Good luck breeding a plant until it replicates jellyfish DNA for fluorescence.
knightly@pawb.social 3 days ago
phys.org/…/2025-06-fish-biofluorescence-evolved-m…
Doxatek@mander.xyz 3 days ago
I mean yeah if you can cause a specific selective pressure for the fluorescence trait and then breed the plant for 100 million years I guess you have a shot haha