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

Re:RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 percent m... by CyanBird on Friday September 03, 2021 @12:23PM (#28406233)

This is like asking if the vitamins that you give to a chicken as a chick will poison you when you eat it as adult, I am not talking of hormones or growth agents, just literal common vitamins

You don't eat "the vitamins" you eat the chicken, you don't eat the fertilizer, you eat the plant

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Re:RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 percent m... by 8note on Friday September 03, 2021 @03:30PM (#28408348)

If you feed mercury to the chicken as a chixk, then eat it as an adult, do you get the mercury?

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Re:RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 percent m... by josephcsible on Saturday September 04, 2021 @02:35AM (#28412644)

Life can create, modify, and break chemical bonds, but can't create, modify, or destroy elements. Vitamins can get metabolized into other compounds but mercury stays mercury.

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Re:RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 percent m... by robbedpeter on Saturday September 04, 2021 @02:32AM (#28412631)

This thread reads like a Monty Python sketch.

Because... fertilizer is mercury!

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