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RE: Plants are better learners than you might think
Great post, the complexity of life never stops amazing me.
I am studying in the field of synthetic biology and this post exited me about the possibilities engineering plants can pose. Plants can be engineered to have complex and nuanced responses based on their environment. They could be designed with internal DNA logic that allows them to sense the soil and make complex lifecycle decisions. Interesting stuff!
Glad this post gave you some ideas. What do you mean by engineering plants? Genetically modifying plants?
Some of the engineering would certainly be done with gene modification technology
Ok, thanks!
As you may guess, the only 'plant engineering' that I know (as ecologist) is the natural one. The associations that plants do between them in a natural way and that can be repeated in similar environmental conditions.
Well to expand a bit, a combination of natural (traditional) breeding, assisted AI directed breeding as well as genetic editing will be used together to produce the desired organism.