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mem_somerville t1_j3ufscy wrote
Reply to comment by Ilix in Scientists have created hybrid rice that can be propagated with high efficiency as clonal seed. This means the benefits of a high-yield hybrid can be kept from season to season without breeding new hybrids. by andyhfell
That will work for a while. But nobody said in the title or anywhere else that it's the end of the line.
mem_somerville t1_j3u9toc wrote
Reply to comment by andyhfell in Scientists have created hybrid rice that can be propagated with high efficiency as clonal seed. This means the benefits of a high-yield hybrid can be kept from season to season without breeding new hybrids. by andyhfell
There is hysterical precedent for people making this claim, most of whom have never seen a farmer seed catalog.
mem_somerville t1_j3tuark wrote
Reply to comment by Ilix in Scientists have created hybrid rice that can be propagated with high efficiency as clonal seed. This means the benefits of a high-yield hybrid can be kept from season to season without breeding new hybrids. by andyhfell
No it doesn't. This method could be used on new varieties all the time, as we have to do now anyway to stay ahead of pathogens.
mem_somerville OP t1_izhkf3q wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Body of research raises questions about ability of cover crops to lower greenhouse gas emissions | cover crops reduce yield, barrier to adoption by mem_somerville
Ok, you can speak to the journal editors if you want.
mem_somerville OP t1_izhhvyx wrote
Reply to comment by SpiritualCash5124 in Body of research raises questions about ability of cover crops to lower greenhouse gas emissions | cover crops reduce yield, barrier to adoption by mem_somerville
Who is crooking this? The climate claims, or promoters of regenerative ag? Or something else?
mem_somerville OP t1_izhge96 wrote
Reply to comment by herenextyear in Body of research raises questions about ability of cover crops to lower greenhouse gas emissions | cover crops reduce yield, barrier to adoption by mem_somerville
They looked at large areas which probably include different types of cropping systems.
But if you lose something from the already much lower organic yields, maybe it's harder to tell?
mem_somerville OP t1_izhb8bu wrote
Reply to Body of research raises questions about ability of cover crops to lower greenhouse gas emissions | cover crops reduce yield, barrier to adoption by mem_somerville
Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.16489
Recent cover crop adoption is associated with small maize and soybean yield losses in the United States
mem_somerville t1_izg0wb0 wrote
Reply to comment by RutherfordBHays in A recent study and a project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture show that chestnut agroforestry systems improved soil health and increased soil carbon sequestration in both the short term and the long term by thexylom
Thank you. I think it's getting close, and I am monitoring the comments as usual. There are anti-chestnut copy-pastas as always, but a lot of genuine support too.
mem_somerville t1_izg0q1z wrote
Reply to comment by thexylom in A recent study and a project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture show that chestnut agroforestry systems improved soil health and increased soil carbon sequestration in both the short term and the long term by thexylom
As u/marcusregulus says, it's non-native. I don't know why people want this when every other times people talk about introducing species they say 'cane toad' and 'purple loosestrife' and those god-forsaken water chestnuts that I pulled out of the Mystic River for years.
Why don't they see that here? I ask the same thing every time someone wants Wolbachia instead of GMO mosquitoes and end up just rolling my eyes back in my head. People who claim to be environmentalists somehow can't figure this out.
Anyway: the American chestnut is what should be used.
mem_somerville t1_izblr16 wrote
Reply to A recent study and a project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture show that chestnut agroforestry systems improved soil health and increased soil carbon sequestration in both the short term and the long term by thexylom
I'm not a huge fan of the Chinese chestnut strategy--but hopefully the American chestnut approval comes along soon and we can start sinking carbon with those massive trees again.
Public comment is open at the US Federal Gubmint site. Tell them how much you want chestnuts restored--how good for the environment, etc.
mem_somerville OP t1_isrbxlm wrote
Reply to comment by SmoothBrainSavant in The Search Is on for Banana Ancestors | previously unknown ancestors discovered in sequence data by mem_somerville
My housemate just asked me for the Gros Michel yesterday too. Geez, I wish they'd get that going again.
mem_somerville OP t1_isr7ngh wrote
Reply to comment by dotcubed in The Search Is on for Banana Ancestors | previously unknown ancestors discovered in sequence data by mem_somerville
Plant genomes are insane. Strawberries are octoploid. Wheat has a bunch of genomes.
And when people are afraid of a single gene...??
mem_somerville OP t1_isqthim wrote
Reply to The Search Is on for Banana Ancestors | previously unknown ancestors discovered in sequence data by mem_somerville
Paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2022.969220/full
Hybridization, missing wild ancestors and the domestication of cultivated diploid bananas
ORIGINAL RESEARCH article Front. Plant Sci., 07 October 2022 Sec. Plant Systematics and Evolution https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.969220
mem_somerville t1_jegb24b wrote
Reply to T. rex may have had lips like a modern lizard’s by TheManFromFairwinds
Here's a version of the story in WaPo that also covers the work: https://wapo.st/3nA9WVB
Should be a gifted article.