RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 percent more potatoes, rice

Re:RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 percent m... by grey-area on Friday September 03, 2021 @10:43AM (#28404859)

No cultivated species is the result of natural selection, they have been selected for centuries, sometimes millennia, by humans for the things we value.

For the most extreme example see seedless grapes.

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Re:RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 percent m... by thret on Friday September 03, 2021 @10:50AM (#28404971)

Peas famously have been cultivated from a single mutation that does not burst when ripe. They can't reproduce without human intervention.

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Re:RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 percent m... by quakeguy on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:32AM (#28405541)

Even when birds or small mammals eat and digest the seeds?

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Re:RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 percent m... by bluGill on Friday September 03, 2021 @03:23PM (#28408267)

Peas are the seeds.

There are some plans that need an animal to digest the seed covering, but not all plants have that as part of their reproduction cycle. (I'm not sure what pea's natural cycle was)

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Re:RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 percent m... by quakeguy on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:55PM (#28409313)

Thank you for clarifying this.

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Re:RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 percent m... by thret on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:00AM (#28457105)

To be clear my knowledge of this topic is limited to that found in 'Guns, Germs, and Steel' by Jared Diamond. I haven't checked his sources.

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