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by dhosek 591 days ago
I read about an effort to do this in the 1950s (IIRC, it was in Pawpaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit by Andrew Moore, but I could be wrong about that) and as I remember it, most of the radiated seeds were either sterile or produced deformed offspring.
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+ artificial selection by robots, could be a way to generate environment adapted organisms.
Did they expose the seeds or the plant that produced them?