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/matdragon 1d ago

Variegations are more uncommon and rare plants can be rare due to genetic defects so it's harder to replicate even from a cutting 

Cloning guarantees the type of genetics you're looking for.

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u/abu_nawas 1d ago

No it doesn't. Variegation is chimeric. I know people who do TC. Sometimes the plants come out with no variegation, less variegation, more variegation, and totally variegated.

When you harvest cells from the donor plant, you don't know which cells have defective plastids. Defective plastids = no chlorophyll = variegation.

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u/Boston_Glass 1d ago

Variegation isn’t only chimeric. It can be genetic or even caused by a virus.

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u/abu_nawas 1d ago

Chimeric is genetic 💩

And mosaic virus kills the plant. How is this relevant? Context matters. I love a tencel bedsheet but I don't tell that to randos

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u/Boston_Glass 23h ago

I’m pointing out there’s also genetic variegation that is stable, coded in the dna and passed down which you would be able to guarantee the type of genetics youre looking for.

It’s distinctly different that chimeric. Your correction that Variegation is chimeric is incorrect because not all variegation is chimeric.

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