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I suspect that it's that you can manually select which tomatoes you want. It's a bit harder to select individual microbes. So essentially, the difference betwe

I suspect that it's that you can manually select which tomatoes you want. It's a bit harder to select individual microbes. So essentially, the difference between the trait you want, X, and the trait that survives, Y, doesn't exist. Every Y is an X, since generations of farmers are the ones manually doing the selection.

sandGorgon 10y ago
that makes a lot of sense. so in case of tomatoes, the survivability of the plant has no correlation with actual survival. it is being engineered by the farmers. what we really need is a way to select and ensure survival of the yeast that we want.