The rush is on. Who wants to grab a pack Mule?

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Dunno bout y’all, but I just heard Dr Allen say it’s time to get a pack-Mule and go synthase hunting around the whirled.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8258764_Pack-MULE_transposable_elements_mediate_gene_evolution_in_plants

I’m gonna have to track down the data sets he used. See what sort of other wonder lies within.

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Is this basically the plant version of bacterial horizontal gene transfer? I wonder if this would fit into the current discussion about tissue culture which has a few tools to allow direct trait manipulation. In other words: siiiiccccckkkk

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kind of. although there is not a lot of horizontal transfer between plants. its more a built in mechanism for creating diversity. and it looks like the cannabis genome, certainly the part responsible for the magic happening in the trichomes, is set up to provide exactly the kinds of variation we’re looking for. makes me wonder about a maker…

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