So basically, let’s gene edit wheat, we don’t know what it has as effect on nature. This is supposed to be good news? It’s a dystopian present. you have my downvote
We’ve been gene editing crops a long time, it’s not proven itself especially harmful beyond the specific ones engineered to resist herbicides allowing greater use of those things, which this doesn’t sound like a case of. Food crops are very divergent from wild ancestral plants regardless of the method used to achieve that, if you’re finding farm-type wheat out in the wild that probably indicates an ecological problem regardless of if they’ve been gene edited or not.
So basically, let’s gene edit wheat, we don’t know what it has as effect on nature. This is supposed to be good news? It’s a dystopian present. you have my downvote
Humans have been modifiying the genes of plants for over ten thousand years. Only difference now we can purposely target genes.
We’ve been gene editing crops a long time, it’s not proven itself especially harmful beyond the specific ones engineered to resist herbicides allowing greater use of those things, which this doesn’t sound like a case of. Food crops are very divergent from wild ancestral plants regardless of the method used to achieve that, if you’re finding farm-type wheat out in the wild that probably indicates an ecological problem regardless of if they’ve been gene edited or not.