You can modify native plants in the same way, and yeah of-course they’re gonna have less fitness.
I think people often forget that a lot of the cool / important stuff happens on the molecular level. You can add GFP or whatever to any native species. I’ve been advocating modifying native plants with carboxysomes as way to a dress climate change for some time – admittedly it’s a not as simple I make it out to be, but it’s definitely in the realm of possibilities.
You can modify native plants in the same way, and yeah of-course they’re gonna have less fitness.
I think people often forget that a lot of the cool / important stuff happens on the molecular level. You can add GFP or whatever to any native species. I’ve been advocating modifying native plants with carboxysomes as way to a dress climate change for some time – admittedly it’s a not as simple I make it out to be, but it’s definitely in the realm of possibilities.