Plant with deep timeline of domestication turns out to have complex un-explored (or at least under-explored) genomics.
Just when I think a Fukayama "end of science" moment is around the corner, science does what it does. Which goes to the Feynman "plenty of room at the bottom" quote.
I love oats. They rescue my gut, they are slow release, they are tasty and they are culturally appropriate food for me, raised in Scotland. Sam Johnson was wrong, they are not just food for horses.
Without over egging the intentionality language, selecting complex repeat-rich genomics which can then express and survive across the domestication breeding cycle is a pretty good strategy for the blind watchmaker. I think if Oats had bred true and been boring genes, they wouldn't have been an early choice for domestication.
Is Corn (the US corn, not the english Corn. English: why can't we use two words for two plants instead of one word for two plants?) the same in its genetics complexity? Is wheat/emmer? Is rye?
ggm•2mo ago
Just when I think a Fukayama "end of science" moment is around the corner, science does what it does. Which goes to the Feynman "plenty of room at the bottom" quote.
I love oats. They rescue my gut, they are slow release, they are tasty and they are culturally appropriate food for me, raised in Scotland. Sam Johnson was wrong, they are not just food for horses.
Without over egging the intentionality language, selecting complex repeat-rich genomics which can then express and survive across the domestication breeding cycle is a pretty good strategy for the blind watchmaker. I think if Oats had bred true and been boring genes, they wouldn't have been an early choice for domestication.
Is Corn (the US corn, not the english Corn. English: why can't we use two words for two plants instead of one word for two plants?) the same in its genetics complexity? Is wheat/emmer? Is rye?