i was watching a Tedx talk about the future of synthetic biology - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AebzoN9hfM0
and it introduced me to something i hadnt heard of before - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening
just need some cobalt-60 and uhhh... a way not to fatally expose yourself to it i guess, lol. Sounds fascinating though. 75% of all red grapefruit sold in the USA are a result of atomic gardening! navel orange is my favorite mutant lol, albeit natural not atomic
and it introduced me to something i hadnt heard of before - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening
just need some cobalt-60 and uhhh... a way not to fatally expose yourself to it i guess, lol. Sounds fascinating though. 75% of all red grapefruit sold in the USA are a result of atomic gardening! navel orange is my favorite mutant lol, albeit natural not atomic
The gamma gardens were arranged in a circular pattern with a retractable radiation source in the middle. Plants were usually laid out like slices of a pie, radiating from the central radiation source; this pattern produced a range of radiation doses over the radius from the centre. The plants nearest the centre usually died, the ones further out often featured "tumors and other growth abnormalities"; beyond these were the plants of interest, with a higher than usual range of mutations, but not to the damaging extent of those closer to the radiation source.
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