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Bigger tobacco?!

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2016 2:11 pm
by IWinchester
Yes please.
The modified tobacco bulked up their leaves, stems, and roots, weighing 14% to 20% more than unmodified plants after 22 days.

Re: Bigger tobacco?!

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2016 3:19 pm
by kurtdesign1
:?: :?:

Re: Bigger tobacco?!

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2016 6:20 pm
by IWinchester
Sorry! That was a quote. Here's the link
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/ ... gger-crops

Re: Bigger tobacco?!

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2016 9:59 pm
by jledou
Mmmmmm GMO tobacco :lol: :lol:

Re: Bigger tobacco?!

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 11:11 am
by IWinchester
As long as it tastes good!

Re: Bigger tobacco?!

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 5:53 pm
by 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?

Re: Bigger tobacco?!

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 6:20 pm
by Kip
Agronomists

Sent via smoke signal from the tropics....

Re: RE: Re: Bigger tobacco?!

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 8:50 pm
by Zedman05
Kip wrote:Agronomists

Sent via smoke signal from the tropics....
*mic drop*

Re: Bigger tobacco?!

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 9:23 pm
by 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....

Re: Bigger tobacco?!

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 11:36 pm
by jledou
says the Hillbilly from Tennessee :lol: :lol: