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minus-squareryedaft@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·7 months agoThat’s not how that works. You pay when you buy the seeds. Then there’s hybrid vigor. And I think someone figured out how to make seeds that only work for four generations… Can’t remember the details.
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 months agoAll hybrid seeds basically only work for one generation, because basic genetics. Terminator Seedsare about 25 years old now, and aren’t actually in use anywhere.
minus-squareryedaft@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoYup. That’s why I said that’s not how it works. Because you buy seeds with hybrid vigor.
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoThey had a kill gene so some crazy inventor wouldn’t kill humanity, or that was the reason I heard back in the day…
minus-squareThe_v@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoThe so called terminator gene was developed in and to attempt to limit the spread of GMO genes into the wild populations. It was a USDA-ARS program. Not their best work but it would have prevented today’s clusterfuck of contamination.
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoI haven’t heard of the contamination problem, do you have any info about that?
minus-squareThe_v@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agohttps://doi.org/10.4161/21645698.2014.945883 Here’s a paper discussing the issue. Corn to teosintes GMO contamination is also huge issue especially in southern states. 20+ years after a failed introduction of GMO RR wheat, they are still finding it in fields. https://www.producer.com/news/cause-of-gm-wheat-escape-unlikely-to-be-known/ https://www.reuters.com/article/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/usda-investigates-unapproved-gmo-wheat-found-in-washington-state-idUSKCN1T900N/
That’s not how that works. You pay when you buy the seeds.
Then there’s hybrid vigor. And I think someone figured out how to make seeds that only work for four generations… Can’t remember the details.
All hybrid seeds basically only work for one generation, because basic genetics.
Terminator Seedsare about 25 years old now, and aren’t actually in use anywhere.
Yup. That’s why I said that’s not how it works. Because you buy seeds with hybrid vigor.
They had a kill gene so some crazy inventor wouldn’t kill humanity, or that was the reason I heard back in the day…
The so called terminator gene was developed in and to attempt to limit the spread of GMO genes into the wild populations. It was a USDA-ARS program. Not their best work but it would have prevented today’s clusterfuck of contamination.
I haven’t heard of the contamination problem, do you have any info about that?
https://doi.org/10.4161/21645698.2014.945883
Here’s a paper discussing the issue.
Corn to teosintes GMO contamination is also huge issue especially in southern states.
20+ years after a failed introduction of GMO RR wheat, they are still finding it in fields.
https://www.producer.com/news/cause-of-gm-wheat-escape-unlikely-to-be-known/
https://www.reuters.com/article/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/usda-investigates-unapproved-gmo-wheat-found-in-washington-state-idUSKCN1T900N/