bgetting

Hey all,

I just found this one. Thought I would throw something in here just for fun.
First, be careful with anything that causes mutations! Not this stuff necassarily, but for the most part things that causes genetic mutations work across the board, so don't get any on your hands.


Second, a polyploid would be very beneficial if you could control which chromosome was present in higher doses (more copies). If you could get the chromosome that holds the genes for resin production (which I am assuming also has the female sex genes on it) then you could have a plant producing twice as many resin making proteins as a diploid! Sounds nice to me, plus you would have a lower chance for hermaphrodites, due to the extra female genes. I am assuming they are linked because only females make resin, but that is sketchy correlation at best.

Fillabong

Wow. Long time no post. Has anyone tried this or done any research into it? I don't like f*cking with mother nature, she's cool, but this sounds really neat. It seems like a cool experiment to try if I have some seeds to play with. Was this once a process thought to be safe and now causes too many problems? Knowing the avid, fanatical gardeners that hangout on this forum, I think someone would've tried this.

F