Um, do we want every crop to be Bananas? 1 evolved new blight from extinction?

Fertilize as in fertilizer, not fertilize as in Pollinate.

edit: wow, no one read the article before they got offended by the head line.

For the people who read “fertilize” and think pollinate: plants already do this a lot.

I’m not going to knock this research, but we’re doing so much work in understanding and cultivating the soil microbiome which seems more promoting. For example, bean plants, especially will do a lot to cultivate nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and farmers are starting to add bacteria to the soil like they would add fertilizer.

Why won’t nature down what we want it too ?