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#plantbreeding — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #plantbreeding, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Paul Götze @[email protected] ·

    Experimental farmer Shane Simonsen: Working on locally adapted #plants & #crops of the future while we still have a safety net. 🌱🌻

    youtu.be/apdB2H-y8c4

    #plantbreeding #seeds #seedsaving #agriculture #local #permaculture #ecology #foodsecurity #food #nutrition

    #plants #crops #plantbreeding #seeds #seedsaving #agriculture
  2. Alexander J. Stein @[email protected] ·

    The EU has finally endorsed #geneediting to introduce novel traits in plants—without treating them like GMOs in terms of #regulation if the plants could have arisen thru conventional #plantbreeding. This means the EU has reopened to innovative agricultural #biotech companies: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

    EU relaxes rules for gene-edit...

    #geneediting #regulation #plantbreeding #biotech
  3. mem_somerville @[email protected] ·

    Sweet. I mean, double-sweet. Watermelon genome studies find prior domestication doubled the sugar transporter.

    Also found useful disease-resistant genes that might be useful to put back in to modern cultivars.

    #CRISRP 🍉 , plz.
    #scicomm #genomics #pangenome #PlantBreeding

    btiscience.org/explore-bti/new

    #crisrp #scicomm #genomics #pangenome #plantbreeding