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World's largest plant discovered off Australian coast - Levin - 02-06-2022
2022-06-01 11:56:14
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researchers from Flinders University in South Australia and the University of Western Australia revealed that they have discovered a seagrass stretching 180km in Western Australia's Shark Bay.
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using genetic tools and were surprised to discover it was one vast organism of the Posidonia australis species.
They estimate that it is at least 4,500 years old.
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"This single plant may in fact be sterile; it doesn't have sex. How it's survived and thrived for so long is really puzzling," he said.
"Plants that don't have sex tend to also have reduced genetic diversity, which they normally need when dealing with environmental change."
He added: "Our seagrass has seen its fair share of environmental change, too. Even today, it experiences a huge range of average temperatures; from 17 to 30 deg C. Salinities from normal seawater to double that. And from darkness to extreme high light conditions.
"These conditions would typically be highly stressful for plants. Yet, it appears to keep on going."
After conducting further tests, researchers found that the plant is a polyploid, meaning it has twice as many chromosomes as its relatives, and it will continue to grow if left undisturbed.
https://english.news.cn/20220601/2f17ac742eae43f6b81454ebfc8e5c63/c.html
RE: World's largest plant discovered off Australian coast - simpleman - 02-06-2022
The largest plants in the world are the monoculture Wheat, Corn, Soya growing in commercial farms, genetically modified to tolerate tonnes of herbicides thrown onto them, which end up in the foods we eat.
GMO food is just too weaved in. Can no longer escape from it.
The largest supplier of organiclly-grown non-GMO grain is ...surprised surprised...Russia..
...as a result of Putin banning GMO crops from russian farmlands in 2016