What are the tradeoffs, does it taste as good and is the yield ok?
Rare corn can self-fertilise [video]
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Re: Rare corn can self-fertilise [video]
#12What are the tradeoffs, does it taste as good and is the yield ok?
> taste as good
Is that important? The corn (not to be confused with sweet corn) we grow now doesn't taste good, hence why we largely don't eat it directly, using animals or chemical processes to make it palatable.
Re: Rare corn can self-fertilise [video]
#13Per https://news.wisc.edu/corn-that-acquires-its-own-nitrogen-id..., original research paper was published in 2018, see https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
Re: Rare corn can self-fertilise [video]
#14What are the tradeoffs, does it taste as good and is the yield ok?
> taste as good Is that important? The corn (not to be confused with sweet corn) we grow now doesn't taste good, hence why we largely don't eat it directly, using animals or chemical processes to make it palatable.
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Re: Rare corn can self-fertilise [video]
#15I just ordered seeds for a nitrogen fixing corn from the Experimental Farm Network.
Sold out. :-(
I'm also super interested. Is it this one? [0]
I have setup a monitor on this page using Monitoro [1] and it will send me an alert when the corn is not "sold out" anymore.
Disclaimer, I'm the founder of Monitoro, you can sign up here [2]. And feel free to reach out if you need any help.
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Re: Rare corn can self-fertilise [video]
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
In this case "self fertilization" refers to fixing nitrogen, not "fertilizing" in the sense of reproduction.
Knowing exactly how much nitrogen they can fix is important. It's unlikely to be enough to take care of the nitrogen requirements of high yield corn.
In the video it said something about modulating the amount of nitrogen fixation based on the plant's needs. Could mean that it's able to scale it up if its needs are higher, but I imagine this is part of the breeding work they're doing.
Re: Rare corn can self-fertilise [video]
#17I just ordered seeds for a nitrogen fixing corn from the Experimental Farm Network.
Sold out. :-(
Someone is selling "nitrogen fixing maize corn" on eBay.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=nitrogen+fixing+corn
No idea if legit.
Re: Rare corn can self-fertilise [video]
#18Title is very misleading. Perhaps it should be “Rare corn can fix its own nitrogen” Incredibly cool though.
I scrolled past the headline a couple times today because I thought it just meant self-pollinate.
Re: Rare corn can self-fertilise [video]
#19Title is very misleading. Perhaps it should be “Rare corn can fix its own nitrogen” Incredibly cool though.
I scrolled past the headline a couple times today because I thought it just meant self-pollinate.
What would be rare about that, though? Even the usual corn we see on the regular can self-pollinate. It typically doesn't, accepting pollen from its neighbours instead, but it can. It is suggested that in a typical field of corn, ~3% of the plants will end up being self-pollinated.
Re: Rare corn can self-fertilise [video]
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I scrolled past the headline a couple times today because I thought it just meant self-pollinate.
What would be rare about that, though? Even the usual corn we see on the regular can self-pollinate. It typically doesn't, accepting pollen from its neighbours instead, but it can. It is suggested that in a typical field of corn, ~3% of the plants will end up being self-pollinated.
Nothing, but self-fertilization is already an established term in biology which makes it confusing.