The garden of biotic dreams
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The garden of biotic dreams
Daphne Kusters
For hundreds of years humans have selectively bred plants and animals to produce offspring with more desirable characteristics. The banana you eat nowadays is not the same banana as 100 years ago. Synthetic biology gives us the opportunity to develop this even further.
Synthetic biology gives us the opportunity to engineer plants and to do things that they have never done before. Imagine that we could solve our problems through bioengineered plants? A plant that could improve animal wellbeing or a plant that can eat our