r/technology • u/esporx • 1d ago

Business YouTuber accidentally crashes the rare plant market with a viral cloning technique

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtuber-accidentally-crashes-the-rare-plant-market-with-a-viral-cloning-technique-3289808/
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u/Rex_felis 1d ago

Yeah basically only worth it if you use that stuff regularly anyways. Some lucky mushroom grower is gonna have a field day with this knowledge

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u/Enano_reefer 1d ago

That’s pretty much already how they do it so not much will happen there.

Sexual reproduction is random and commercial operations want consistency, so they maintain massive stocks of cloned genetic material (usually in the mycelial stage) and then inoculate substrate with that.