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I can see how it could be worrysome. Playing around with a food network could result in unintended consequences. A couple of searches: "Glomerella cingulata (s
by vinchuco 12y ago
I can see how it could be worrysome. Playing around with a food network could result in unintended consequences. A couple of searches:
"Glomerella cingulata (sexual version of the fungi they want to spread) (...) causes disease on many different hosts including quince and apple..." [2]
"The United States is the second-leading producer (of apples), with more than 6% of world production. " [3]
Link to article [1]
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomerella_cingulata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomerella_cingulata
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple
[1] http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10526-011-9399-x#page-1 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10526-011-9399-x#p...
- JoeAnzalone 12y ago> Playing around with a food network could result in unintended consequences. Yeah, just look what happened when they let Guy Fieri on there!
- nemo 12y agoThey want to release Colletotrichum salsolae. Glomerella cingulata's teleomorph is Colletotrichum gloeosporioides - different species. Since it's the Ag. Research Service that's interested, the first thing they'd test on are Ag. species. Also, hopefully the dual-naming of fungi by anamorph/teleomorph will go away some day. It's really weird to refer to a species by two separate taxonomical names.