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The environments can be compartmentalised and sterilised between crops; if it's a sealed environment and the only inputs apart from the seeds are sterile (via U
by brippalcharrid 6y ago
The environments can be compartmentalised and sterilised between crops; if it's a sealed environment and the only inputs apart from the seeds are sterile (via UV treatment of water, for instance), there's far less risk of disease, and by carefully controlling the handling of the seeds (and ensuring that there's a reasonable degree of genetic diversity amongst them) that also reduces the risk of widespread crop failures. It's also far easier to monitor and continuously test crops in a controlled environment like that, and it wouldn't need to be just a few massive factories; there could be a large number of smaller ones that were geographically distributed.
- tomcam 6y agoSo, no citation. It appears we are both guessing.
- brippalcharrid 6y agoI don't have any peer-reviewed papers to hand on this particular subject (they may not even exist yet), but I welcome your feedback on the reasoning that I gave as to why I think that this is, fundamentally, a solvable problem.
- tomcam 6y agoI absolutely believe you could be right. Would love you to be. I literally was looking for citations. I also know these problems are difficult and my own experiments were discouraging--which has absolutely no bearing on what's possible.