• Neato
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    64 months ago

    Um, do we want every crop to be Bananas? 1 evolved new blight from extinction?

  • @[email protected]
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    4 months ago

    Fertilize as in fertilizer, not fertilize as in Pollinate.

    edit: wow, no one read the article before they got offended by the head line.

  • @taanegl
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    34 months ago

    Scientists: “sir, the bees are dying”

    Executive: “Can we make plants fuck them selves?”

  • Trafficone
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    24 months ago

    For the people who read “fertilize” and think pollinate: plants already do this a lot.

    I’m not going to knock this research, but we’re doing so much work in understanding and cultivating the soil microbiome which seems more promoting. For example, bean plants, especially will do a lot to cultivate nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and farmers are starting to add bacteria to the soil like they would add fertilizer.