Bigger tobacco?!

[IWinchester]

Yes please.
The modified tobacco bulked up their leaves, stems, and roots, weighing 14% to 20% more than unmodified plants after 22 days.

[kurtdesign1]

[IWinchester]

Sorry! That was a quote. Here's the link
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/ ... gger-crops

[jledou]

Mmmmmm GMO tobacco

[IWinchester]

As long as it tastes good!

[kurtdesign1]

Without reading the article I'll say this (please forgive the heresy) haven't we been "genetically modifying" tobacco for decades? Passive modification has eradicated blue mold and black shank for this entire century. The hygronomers (How is that spelled?) in Cuba went away from Corojo & Criollo in 1995 through the first GMO tobacco implementation that I know of. They didn't just switch to another foreign varietal, they made their own. As I discussed on a show or two ago, they typically change this up every 2 or 3 years now. One would imagine that specifying a varietal with higher yield, larger leaves, shorter maturity, lower/higher nicotine would all be desirable traits. Breeding those traits in or out is a form of modification, is it not?

[Kip]

Agronomists

Sent via smoke signal from the tropics....

[Zedman05]

Agronomists

Sent via smoke signal from the tropics....

*mic drop*

[Kip]

It drives me up a friggin wall when people say "hydrometer" instead of hyGrometer. A hygrometer goes in your humidor and measures humidity. A hydrometer measures the density of a liquid (by brew masters and the like). I'm not generally a linguistic nazi, but that's a deep seated pet peeve of mine.

Sent via smoke signal from the tropics....

[jledou]

says the Hillbilly from Tennessee