Well life is going on as normal i guess except im reading a sweet book. its about high yield crops and the patents that have to do with the creations of said super crops. you would think it wouldn't be interesting but it actually is and i bet i know a shit tonnes more about patents, crops, genetics, and dandelions than anyone reading this so watch out. fun fact dandelions reproduce asexually that is to say the next generation of plants are basically clones of the previous generation so that they inherit all the genetic advantages with little to no change. the key word is APOMIXIS and if this characteristic that only exists within 10% of all plants were able to be genetically graphed into crops which require normal pollination to reproduce making high yield crops not high yield in future generations...then the food problem would be solved. and imagine how much money a bio-corporation could make if they had the exclusive worldwide patent to the process or even the seed of said APOMIXIS crops. yeah pretty cool
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