zakooma needs to do a bit more research instead of just learning to swear. ever seen a seed in a banana? I never have and i've been eating bananas long before GM became the catchword of the uninformed intelligentsia
I agree, tissue culture doesn't mean genetically transforming a plant and plants that don't have seeds dont mean they were genetically transformed. That can happen to many plants naturally when self pollinated or not pollinated at all. Pineapple, banana, oranges, grapefruit, water melon and grapes are some examples of plants bred (not GM) to not produce seeds, its desirable when eating them. Tissue culture is just cloning a plant. Sticking a cutting in the ground is cloning a plant too.
They will soon find out that that "tissue cultured" banana is a Genetical Modified Organism. That "tissue cultured" banana is INCAPABLE of reproducing another. It can only be cloned in a specific laboratory, NOT at a farmer's home or garden.
Those farmers will always have to buy new cloned young banana plants each and every planting season. They have seen nothing yet compared to the kind of struggle that's awaiting them. They better wake the f!ck up!! Biotechnology will control them.
The domestic banana is a well-known triploid that is sterile and therefore unable to reproduce sexually - that's why there are no seeds in the bananas we eat!
All bananas grown for food are the products of cloning through either the transplantation of the naturally produced suckers (just like taking cuttings in the garden) or the suckers can be cloned in the lab by tissue culture. The benefit of the tissue culturing is that the plantlets produced can be virus free.
@zakoomu if the genetics are the same from the original plant minus the weak traits the mother aquired later in life, how is it GMO. they aren't adding or taking away certain genes in the lab.
awesome work =)) good job keep it up congrats
maishadugat 2 months ago
zakooma needs to do a bit more research instead of just learning to swear. ever seen a seed in a banana? I never have and i've been eating bananas long before GM became the catchword of the uninformed intelligentsia
jelad100 11 months ago
I agree, tissue culture doesn't mean genetically transforming a plant and plants that don't have seeds dont mean they were genetically transformed. That can happen to many plants naturally when self pollinated or not pollinated at all. Pineapple, banana, oranges, grapefruit, water melon and grapes are some examples of plants bred (not GM) to not produce seeds, its desirable when eating them. Tissue culture is just cloning a plant. Sticking a cutting in the ground is cloning a plant too.
fbt2007 1 year ago
They will soon find out that that "tissue cultured" banana is a Genetical Modified Organism. That "tissue cultured" banana is INCAPABLE of reproducing another. It can only be cloned in a specific laboratory, NOT at a farmer's home or garden.
Those farmers will always have to buy new cloned young banana plants each and every planting season. They have seen nothing yet compared to the kind of struggle that's awaiting them. They better wake the f!ck up!! Biotechnology will control them.
zakoomu 3 years ago
The domestic banana is a well-known triploid that is sterile and therefore unable to reproduce sexually - that's why there are no seeds in the bananas we eat!
All bananas grown for food are the products of cloning through either the transplantation of the naturally produced suckers (just like taking cuttings in the garden) or the suckers can be cloned in the lab by tissue culture. The benefit of the tissue culturing is that the plantlets produced can be virus free.
AHBiologyTeacher 3 years ago
@zakoomu if the genetics are the same from the original plant minus the weak traits the mother aquired later in life, how is it GMO. they aren't adding or taking away certain genes in the lab.
mreisma 2 years ago
Great video! Thank you for putting this one up on YouTube.
fbt2007 3 years ago