Comment on arborholing
deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoSome being a key word there. Plants, as a whole, are not dependent on mammals for their existence.
Comment on arborholing
deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoSome being a key word there. Plants, as a whole, are not dependent on mammals for their existence.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I don’t think the OP was saying every plant in existence is dependent on humans. But crops are, and we’re dependent on them. Co-domestication, I guess.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
most of them, but they all can naturalized and go feral and become weeds. plants that are triploid which is artificially induced by people are totally dependant on humans for survival, aka watermelon, cavendish banannas ,etc. crops become feral overtime.
the advatange of plants becoming feral, is that most of them have high ploidy numbers for chromosones, rather than the usual 2 copies. some can have 1-20+ copies of thier chromosome., even crops, this allows plants to have copies of genes that can be somewhat detremental, but not affect the plants fitness, because they multiple copies of the same normal gene, those same copies can also evolve to give selective advantage. thats why some weeds or invasive plants are very hard to eradicate. reproduce extremely fast, asexually or otherwise or poisonous which makes them highly resistant to pests.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ll save you a Google: NO, high ploidy numbers in people sadly do not seem to be quite as positive and delicious.