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You know how there are those plans to gene-hack mosquitos into sterility? Could we make an “herbicide” that’s actually a bacterium carrying a knotwood-specific
by derefr 3y ago
You know how there are those plans to gene-hack mosquitos into sterility? Could we make an “herbicide” that’s actually a bacterium carrying a knotwood-specific CRISPR program, to do something drastic and awful to crucial portions of its DNA — and then just spray it on one part of an infestation, and wait for it to spread across the whole soil-connected colony?
- nukeman 3y agoThat’s generally been my thought on how to deal with invasive plants (and probably insects). We’d need to assuage public concerns first in order for the strategy to be accepted, however. But ultimately I think there is huge potential for such highly targeted control, and I look forward to its use in North America for eliminating invasives.