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0 pointslosteric8y ago0 comments

I am interested to see how the pest ecosystem evolves in response to robotic "predators"... Can insects evolve effective camouflage? Will weeds evolve to mimic cash crops? How will fungi/bacteria/viruses respond to a lack of other pests?

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agavegoose8y ago

Something very similar to that has already happened - in (very often hand-weeded) rice, shattering appears to have evolved to de-domesticate the crop - making it essentially impossible for 'weedy' rice to be distinguished from the real thing - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130717132418.h...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2988683/

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agavegoose8y ago

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2988683/

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