Tobacco Plants that Stay Young Forever

[deluxestogie]

This is a curious article. By messing with a single gene, researchers have developed tobacco plants (for biomass fuel) that never blossom, and continue growing forever. The stalks on these plants are 10 cm (~6.25") in diameter!

http://phys.org/news/2013-01-giant-tobacco-young.html

I don't know how this would smoke. Those plants are currently 8 years old, and over 18' tall.

Bob

 

[LeftyRighty]

yea, a tobacco tree !
Don, can you get some grafts ? I'll do a grow-out.

 

[leverhead]

I thought tobacco was a perennial, as long as the winters weren't too harsh.

 

[Boboro]

I can see me now liein on a Jamaican beach under a 30' bacca tree smokein a hookha pipe.

 

[leverhead]

Ya Mon! You want some Ganja for that pipe?

 

[johnlee1933]

Ya Mon! You want some Ganja for that pipe?

Nah ! He plugged the hose into the trunk and built a camp fire. -- John

 

[Boboro]

Got stuck thir for a couple mounths They got mo janjja than tobacca.

 

[Boboro]

Them ppl need tobacco trees. Thir work ethics sux.

 

[leverhead]

Got stuck thir for a couple mounths They got mo janjja than tobacca.

I don't know, but I have been told that it's some damn fine stuff.

 

[BarG]

I don't know, but I have been told that it's some damn fine stuff.

I don't know but Ive been told, that gene spliced tobacco is mighty old.

 

[wrigsted]

Giant tobacco plants that stay young forever

Maybe it will interest some of us, although it's not strictly have something to grow tobacco. But hey it's tobacco!

"..Tobacco plants bloom when they are just a few months old – and then they die. Now, researchers have located a genetic switch which can keep the plants young for years and which permits unbounded growth. In short, an ideal source of biomass."

More here:
http://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/r...t-stay-young-forever---research-news-jan.html

 

[Juxtaposer]

If they have their way NO tobacco will be able to naturally reproduce. Then farmers will need to buy starts. This is already done with corn and other plants. Once they figure out how to "infect" the odd gardens to clean up the loose ends perhaps nothing will grow without paying the "owners". Far fetched ... yes, but this IS what they are working towards and they are getting one step closer every day.

 

[Boboro]

Monsanto is a good place to look at seed monopaley.

 

[Knucklehead]

And chicken houses. You do what Cagle says or you don't get chickens.

 

[SmokesAhoy]

There are already some strains where 60% of the work went into making the plant sterile, y1 (if I remember name right) comes to mind