[evilduck]

What's the difference between atomic gardening and regular selective breeding performed under the giant ball emitting ionizing radiation that we have overhead half the day except the rate at which mutations occur? Plants with terrible nonviable mutations might be entirely sterile even if we like them, plants with viable but undesirable mutations we won't propagate into another generation. It seems akin to modern GMO efforts with a shotgun instead of a scalpel, but it did work.

Plants also handle mutations differently, creating burls and cavities and whatnot instead of it taking over the entire existing plant like cancer does in animals. You're unlikely to generate a Plants vs. Zombies scenario here.

[fsckboy]

irradiating seeds without irradiating the consumers of seeds creates an opportunity for one-sided evolutionary advantage. see Gojira

[TeMPOraL]

That's... literally not how any of this works.

Might as well say that beating grapes into pulp without beating grapes of the consumers gives juice an opportunity for one-sided evolutionary advantage.