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Re:Red algae proteins grafted into tobacco double plant growth by cassepipe on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:24PM (#36925361)
So you are saying tobacco is the vegetal world equivalent of the mice !
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Re:Red algae proteins grafted into tobacco double plant growth by kurthr on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:35PM (#36925977)
Yep, it's easy to grow in quantity. It has a relatively large/complete plant genome and, I think tobacco mosaic virus was used to implant genes early on. Another plant often used is corn since as I remember it allows plasmids to be implanted for new proteins (and you can add more plasmids to increase production).
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Re:Red algae proteins grafted into tobacco double plant growth by pfdietz on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:34PM (#36926408)
I think that would be Arabidopsis thaliana.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabidopsis_thaliana

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