characteristics of other crop plants? Then they could just spread this genetically altered pollen in Pakistan and Afghanistan and that'd be the end of terrorists' funding via the opium trade??
Why can't genetic engineers make poppy pollen so that no more opium is made, when they're able to change other
Assume that they can. Then how do you ensure that the genetically engineered pollen is the one that fetilize the existing flowers? Poppies are fetilized by bees, so the pollen of one flower is the one getting on the back of a bee that will get brushed into another flower. Airdropping pollen would do nothing unless you put so much that it has the concentration that the natural pollen has on the flower's stamen.
The plants that are genetically engineered are done in a lab, in a closely isolated area. And it is only after the plant is ready that seeds are released. It is not done with pollen, it is done with seeds. And evidently, those interested in the new plant get those seeds deliberately.
Reply:Well I think it would have to be America or other countries that have the knowhow to do that. Can you imagine what would happen if we started flying over those countries, dropping stuff from planes? Theoretically , a great idea, just not practical in my opinion.
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