by engineering plants to intake carbon dioxide at night only, does it affect oxygen production or anything beneficial to ecology? I cant help but think us humans might start engineering plants in a way that messes up the ecosystem, starting with crops of course, but eventually it being the dominant of all plants on earth, something that would take a long time to notice, before its too late. sounds like a bad movie plot but im not knowledgeable on the subject. I was simply interested in plant DNA and ended up researching a little...
interesting talk, informative and conclusive.
Great stuff! #AddItHere
May you please share the article title of the Gene you referring to (The pasta wheat).
www.nature.com/articles/nbt.2120 - Wheat grain yield on saline soils is improved by an ancestral Na+ transporter gene, Munns et al. (2012)
by engineering plants to intake carbon dioxide at night only, does it affect oxygen production or anything beneficial to ecology? I cant help but think us humans might start engineering plants in a way that messes up the ecosystem, starting with crops of course, but eventually it being the dominant of all plants on earth, something that would take a long time to notice, before its too late. sounds like a bad movie plot but im not knowledgeable on the subject. I was simply interested in plant DNA and ended up researching a little...