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It's probably possible to do that with fruit (making seedless fruit), but probably not possible with edible seeds like soybean or corn. If we were playing God
by veemjeem 14y ago
It's probably possible to do that with fruit (making seedless fruit), but probably not possible with edible seeds like soybean or corn. If we were playing God here, why didn't Monsanto just invent a plant that would produce all different kinds of fruit on one plant so that we didn't have to plant a bunch of different crops? It would be even better if the plant could position the fruit at known intervals on a branch to increase the speed of harvesting machinery.
So obviously some things aren't quite possible. Your suggestion is nice, but I don't think it's as easy as doing a few years of research.
- nitrogen 14y agoI believe there is a variety of rice that is an infertile hybrid. I recall seeing it on some PBS show,l or similar, but don't have a reference at the moment.
- veemjeem 14y agoWell, all I'm saying is if it were easy to do, Monsanto probably would have done it already to protect their business model. Unfortunately modifying DNA is not quite as easy as setting compiler flags.