RNA demethylation increases rice and potato yields 50%

Re:RNA demethylation increases rice and potato yields 50% by mnw21cam on Friday July 23, 2021 @04:56AM (#27928626)

The gene that was added is translated into a protein that floats around the cell doing the RNA demethylation. The plants already have other genes that produce proteins that did that, but adding another one has an effect.

Edit: correction - thanks Scaevolus, my mistake.

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Re:RNA demethylation increases rice and potato yields 50% by Scaevolus on Friday July 23, 2021 @05:39AM (#27928891)

Plants already have proteins that do this [1], but modifying them or adding new ones can affect phenotype as shown by this study.

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2019.00500...

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Re:RNA demethylation increases rice and potato yields 50% by londons_explore on Friday July 23, 2021 @05:38AM (#27928888)

I'm surprised the plant lives at all in that state... One would imagine RNA methylation is used for all kinds of logic and mechanisms in plant cells, so arbitrarily removing them all would break stuff.

It would be like a programmer saying "let's just comment out every line of code starting with "if" in the windows source code, and then see if it boots faster!

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Re:RNA demethylation increases rice and potato yields 50% by trasz on Friday July 23, 2021 @05:12AM (#27928720)

Now it makes sense, thanks!

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