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- rune420, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26More like "I found out what makes electricity work! It's these little particles called electrons!". And even though I don't understand this too well I think it's interesting and I appreciate that man has made himself another insight into the workings of his surroundings.
- bigfkncee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26stop hatin
- NikoK, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25Holy Grail for weed growers!
- h3ndrix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Dugg for submitters over-excited title.
Look forward to seeing
"THE MECCA FOR ALL EXISTENCE: Bingo tips now in blog form!" - karlid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13"The ability to control flowering is of enormous commercial significance across food and non-food species, for example extending production seasons or designing plants better adapted to changing climate"
Sounds sort of useful... - ersatzphi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15The only holy grail of plant biology I expect to see on digg is the day someone invents marijuana that is undetectable by drug tests.
- eneshelon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12now if only we found the holy grail to DEflowering... that would kinda be a big deal
- cosmicv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10ersatzphi - The man that mixes marijuana and Kudzu will change the world forever...
- todd74, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9HOLY GRAIL OF PLANT BIOLOGY? C'mon now, let's dial it down a gram or 3.5.
- ronito, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7This is the holy grail of sensationalistic headlines!
- Sandkat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7FFS stop with the sensationalist headlines.
- monospaced, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Since when was Digg about news? (joke) Funny thing is that this is closer to "news" than most of the crap posted here.
- Godel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@screemthenrun
This is about more than just figuring out that changing light influences flower development. They found the actual chemical that the plant uses to trigger flowering. That's like finding the first neurotransmitter. The implications from this are enormous, as it will allow genetic engineering to influence plant flowering to a much greater degree than is possible today. - Inthearmor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I won't be impressed until they invent fire flowers! Now that'd be sweet.
- asdfasdf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Switching to 12/12 lighting (12hrs on 12hrs off) triggers Cannabis to start flowering.
- Edkim, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I buried all the comments because I don't have anything better to do. Except my homework...
- Aliarse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'll give you the same answer i gave the person who posted this question 1 hr ago ;
Lots of Booze. ;) - regedit2D, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm going to be doing something with it, my pot production is going to go through the roof
- vinesun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2P.S. I'm talking about the knowledge that FT is the signal that travels from the leaf...I know that the whole light response is not news at all.
- Aliarse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Obviously these "Scientists" have never grown pot indoors.
- bRUTALkANOODLE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2or mushrooms that make me get really big. those work too
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I grew the Holly Grail, Cinderella-99
- Ngai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ohh yeah....
- maheshee11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Since the 1930s when it first became clear that something was communicating the perception of changes in day length in leaves to the shoot apex, and causing flowering, scientists have been trying to work out exactly how this mechanism works." To quote from the article.. This is for the first time that the critical signal has been discovered.
- T3H4815162342, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Buried for ruining the plot of the upcoming Indiana Jones film.
- lordmetroid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good, now we know the hormone that makes it so and the trigger for which the hormone is dependent upon for release. Soon we can make monster plants :)
Actually I done some really awesome hormone manipulation of plants in laboratory and the outcome is always equally fascinating. - Aliarse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually, the Holy Grail of pot is, drumroll please.
Cheese! - ImYourRealDad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Jumping beans.
- maheshee11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Since the 1930s when it first became clear that something was communicating the perception of changes in day length in leaves to the shoot apex, and causing flowering, scientists have been trying to work out exactly how this mechanism works." To quote from the article. This is for the first time that the critical signal has been discovered. That is why the article holds a greater significance.
- graemee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wonder how this relates to Bamboo and it's 100 year flowering/die off cycle.
- Aliarse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lots of Booze. ;)
- omaryak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So do we still need those disappearing bees?
- eepman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Maybe if this is an actual discovery it will fix the bee problem.
Maybe the bees KNEW THIS THE WHOLE TIME.
ITS A BEE CONSPIRACY! - GreggieFresh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It's not that big of a deal, even for cannabis growers. Indoor growers adjust the light cycle to simulate the seasons (and thus triggering flowering). Having a plant flower from the beginning of growth would be pointless because little to no vegetative growth would occur, thus making the flowers small to nonexistent.
- vinesun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I'm going to argue that yeah, this is not significant news, but not because no one cares.
I only clicked on this article because I saw the headline and thought "Wait, I thought I already knew that." I took a developmental biology class last semester and I could have sworn that we learned this. I don't really trust myself to remember crap I already took the final for, so I dug up the old lecture slides. So yeah, there's a slide in there that details exactly this. I'd post it but I'm sure it'd violate some copyright.
It's actually pretty likely that my professor happens to be involved with the same line of Arabidopsis research and that this *isn't* common knowledge (well, relatively common, i.e. at the level of the college biology major), but I thought it was weird that a random person like me would see this and be like "Wait, I already know this." So, I dunno if this is as much of a breakthrough as the title makes it out to be. - AudioEnthusiast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@ Aliarse: Agreed. 800/oz. WAY too expensive-around here anyway... Maybe if I went to BC...
- KineticShampoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm glad someone found a breakthrough in science! =)
All is good for knowledge. - cremophore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Lemme know when you find that solution
Inventing the wheel sure ***** up the planet. Now all these blasted cars and wheelchairs are ruining the scenery. - vinesun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1oops
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Always go for the gusto, and the Holy Grail, good submission
- PresidentGas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1http://digg.com/music/Funny_scientific_element_song_animation
Plz now cmon - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Greeeat. It is important to know why and how it occurs, though now some can unnaturally screw around with the natural process of plants even more directly, instead of learning to live with their limitations. Remember how your first birdhouse looked? Can humans truly engineer anything long-term, large scale, without dorking up the planet? There is little or no incentive (yet) to do so.
- Corynorhinus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1As a biologist, I think the real holy grail of plant biology, at least for the forseeable future, is the development of sustainable bio-fuels. Imagine crops that could be rotated with food crops to improve the soil during times when food crops aren't grown, that respond to an outside stimulus to decompose themselves into fuel-compatible compounds....
- PhDChemgeek, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3I 2nd hawk on this. This is most definitely old news, and hardly "the holy grail of plant biology".
- bezpredel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Now we need to find out the signal that triggers deflowering
- catalysis, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2So theoretically, this protein could be added to the water or injected into the plant stem to induce flowering while maintaining longer periods of light. The question remains, will this cause the plant to ripen faster or will it mature at the same rate with larger flowers?
- screamthenrun, on 10/12/2007, -12/+6sorry guys... but hawk is right
in my AP bio class, we just went over this stuff literally today...(and i was up late last night writing an essay on it) and its in a book written by a guy who died about a year ago... its not a HOLY GRAIL
scientists have been manipulating flowers for years... if you flash red light on a plant at night, it will not flower, but if you flash "far red" light on a plant at night after flashing it with the red light it will still be able to flower... this is because plants only 'detect' the red light (the far red offsets the effects)
... it would be news if they were actually doing something with the gene... discovering it is great, but its only news if the discovery was worthwhile - jmkiii, on 10/12/2007, -20/+2I found out what makes electricity not work. It's rubbers!
- hawk0168, on 10/12/2007, -63/+10This is not significant news. Maybe for people who study plants biochemically, but not for anyone else. MANY plants flower in response to day length. This has been known for decades. All this article is saying is that they now know the signal carrier. That's like saying "I found out what makes electricity work! It's copper wires!"
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