Synthetic biology startup Lygos raises $13M to make cleaner chemicals

Re:Synthetic biology startup Lygos raises $13M to make clean... by archgoon on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @12:12AM (#13174018)

I suspect that it's that you can manually select which tomatoes you want. It's a bit harder to select individual microbes.

So essentially, the difference between the trait you want, X, and the trait that survives, Y, doesn't exist. Every Y is an X, since generations of farmers are the ones manually doing the selection.

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Re:Synthetic biology startup Lygos raises $13M to make clean... by sandGorgon on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @02:21AM (#13174410)

that makes a lot of sense. so in case of tomatoes, the survivability of the plant has no correlation with actual survival. it is being engineered by the farmers.

what we really need is a way to select and ensure survival of the yeast that we want.

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