Saturday, July 21, 2018
Why do you have to spoil it?
Via Eurekalert, a hugely interesting finding. As always the finding is spoiled by placing it at the service of Deepstate's "global warming" racket.
The article associates science with crime immediately at the start:
An international team led by the Freiburg plant biologist Prof. Dr. Thomas Laux has shown that mother plants guide the development of their embryos using the hormone auxin. In the future, this result might help breeders grow plants that are more resilient in the face of environmental challenges.A little plain science in the middle:
In seed-bearing plants such as grains, the embryos develop in unison with the surrounding tissue of the mother plant. Laux and colleagues therefore posited that there must be a form of communication between the mother plant and the embryo that guides the early stages of development after fertilization. ... The hormone auxin accumulates in the area of the seed in which the embryo is connected to the maternal tissue. Auxin is used by plants to control a variety processes ranging from organ development to defence against pathogenic microbes. ... Embryo development is disturbed when the production of auxin by the maternal cells is blocked. However, artificial activation of auxin biosynthesis in the embryo cells, which are normally unable to produce this hormone in early stages of development, allowed the embryos to develop normally without a maternal auxin supply.This use of auxin doesn't really justify the claim of maternal influence, but it shows that signaling does occur. It's a safe bet that plenty of epigenetic shaping is underway during the development, with many chemical and electrical signals actively transferring the maternal decisions. The article closes by singing the required hymns of abject loyalty to the globalist mob:
This finding could also contribute to the optimization of biotechnological plant propagation. "Plants could be bred faster and more efficiently so that they can adapt to unfavourable environmental conditions and climate change, for example", Laux explains.= = = = = Interesting gedankenexperiment: What if UNCOOL governments and UNCOOL foundations, associated with populism, started to pour huge amounts of money into research? So much money that even the COOLEST scientists would start gravitating toward the grants? To get these grants you would need to show that your research will help SMALL businesses, LOCAL governments, and MORAL people to cut loose from Deepstate. You couldn't connect your research with any Deepstate criminal rackets. In other words, you would have to do science the Carver way, for Carver's purposes.
Labels: Carbon Cult, Carver
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