On: The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana ha...

[ptah]

yip, and they are about to become a cautionary tale about GMO it seems. monoculture was once the height of scientific farming techniques. unintended consequences seems to be an unknown consequence of scientism, the religious zealotry that some have for science

[chr1 → ptah]

They have potential to become the first widely used GMO, as it will be easy to add immunity to this fungus with a small CRISPR edit.

[Retric → chr1]

Many GMO’s are very common already. 1/2 of all soybeans are GMO.

[ptah → Retric]

hopefully it won't lead to catastrophe https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/genetically-modifi...

[ptah → chr1]

that edit will have other consequences for the plant as well as there is no gene that specifically controls susceptibility to this fungus