„Es ist ein riesiger Eisberg und wir stehen an seiner Spitze“: Warum Polyploidie nach einem Jahrhundert am Rande nun im Mittelpunkt der Aufmerksamkeit steht
https://www.agtechnavigator.com/Article/2024/06/06/Why-is-there-growing-interest-in-polyploidy
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David Friedberg recently revealed to an exited agtech world details about Ohalo Genetics’s radical plans to produce hardier more productive crops. This involves artificially inducing the concept of polyploidy – where an organism has more than two sets of chromosomes – to bring new levels of precision and speed to plant breeding.
Ohalo’s technology works by disenabling the reproductive circuits in each parent plant. Normally, a random half of the genes of each parent go to the offspring. But by switching off this reproductive circuit, and effectively controlling polyploidy, the offspring plant gets 100% of the genes from each parent. The fact the plant has more genes means it has more changes of inheriting a gene that will allow it to overcome or manage a stress. Ohalo’s early trials have seen “insane” yield gains of “50% to 100% or more” compared to regular plants, said Friedberg.
„It’s a giant iceberg, and we’re at the very tip“
no mention of whether, in this analogy, we are the iceberg or we are the Titanic. guess time will tell…