Feed me, Seymore!
What makes you think they didn’t introduce us to it?
I have an idea.
Tremors episode 9. “flora or fauna” aghhh!!!!
Lovely!
Wondering for a friend...how long could killer bees expect to live when packaged for international shipment?
Is Dr Fauci funding this too?
I hear that someone created it by eating bat soup.
The flies are a higher form of life than the plants so the flies should be allowed to eat the plants, like we do.
Wonder if the Heirlooms are immune.
This is like written by a sixth grader.
Also, I’m assuming researchers have found evidence of this “horizontal” gene transfer but this article didn’t describe any of the evidence.
It’s worse than we can imagine. Transmitted by EM waves.
Just look at the dumb*sses that got the B*ttwipe gene transferred to them when they tuned in CNN.
A man who was bitten by a radioactive spider ...
Hey House, here you go.
“Turlings says the gene transfer event occurred between 35 million and 80 million years ago, when the sweet potato whitefly and other whitefly species that lack the gene split from a common ancestor.”
Flaunting its whitefly priviledge.
Maybe that is what they have in the Covid vaxes. Heh
...researchers found that the whitefly (B. tabachi) obtained a gene dubbed BtPMaT1, which gave it protection against toxins found on plants — toxins that should protect them from insects... The researchers fed the whiteflies a diet containing the toxic phenolic glycosides, with a control group receiving a solution without the toxin. That’s how they proved the bug received the gene from a plant and then incorporated it into its DNA.
That on the surface is no proof of anything. Maybe they just need a better science writer. How about explaining the outcome of their test versus the control group.
They might have explained how they knew that whitefly (B. tabachi) did not have that DNA incorporation in past generations. How can feeding whitefly (B. tabachi) the same diet that it had been naturally feeding on prove jack squat?
Don’t blame yourself. Even the complete sentences are bad.
“The researchers fed the whiteflies a diet containing the toxic phenolic glycosides, with a control group receiving a solution without the toxin. That’s how they proved the bug received the gene from a plant and then incorporated it into its DNA.”
The above is most certainly not how they proved the fly got the gene from the plant. That describes evidence to support the idea that the fly got an enzyme from the plant, but doesn’t even get to the DNA level yet.
Done is a lab and released. That is my guess.
Feed me, Seymore!