Re:Accelerating Photosynthesis
by ben_w on Thursday January 09, 2020 @10:34AM
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There’s lots of stuff we don’t understand, but our ignorance isn’t necessarily the reason evolution didn’t do it.
I expect us to find out why evolution didn’t do it by doing it to the plant genome ourselves — and that either it requires too many simultaneous changes for evolution, and/or it turns the plant into something irresistible to insects or fungi.
Re:Accelerating Photosynthesis
by lm28469 on Thursday January 09, 2020 @10:39AM
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I'm sure there are many many more scenarios than the ones you listed. We're talking about editing the very thing that permitted life on earth, not renaming YourVarName to your_var_name across a codebase ...
I expect us to find out why evolution didn’t do it by doing it to the plant genome ourselves — and that either it requires too many simultaneous changes for evolution, and/or it turns the plant into something irresistible to insects or fungi.