02-19-2020, 10:19 AM
(02-19-2020, 12:27 AM)Carbadox Wrote: Curare tomatoes. Now that's a thought
The genome difference between melons, bananas, and tomatoes are already enough of a pain in the ass to splice successfully, and they're all within 4-ish genomes of each other. Tomatoes have a genome of, like, 18 and contusine somewhere around 3. So to even get them to splice, you'd need to splice them first with a bunch of other seeds.
Even if all those seeds were reasonably close in genome, you're still risking several 20-30% chances that the seeds you've been working on just up and disappear. That, and your curare tomatoes'll end up with about a dozen other useless chems that'll crowd out the poison.
Best to just whip wine glasses at people, lot less frustration on your end (and a lot more on their end!).