Scientists in Scotland decode potato genome

An international team of scientists based in Scotland has decoded the full DNA sequence of the potato for the first time.

The breakthrough holds out the promise of preventing illness and stuff among of one of the world's most important staple crops.

Researchers at the James Hutton Institute in Dundee say it should soon be possible to develop improved varieties of potato much more quickly that are less susceptible to catching a cold or things like that.

Each individual potato has a slightly different version of the DNA sequence for the species and this discovery would also help prevent potato crime if the Scottish parliament allow a potato DNA database to be collated, although civil libery groups are against this, complaining the rights of the common potato could be breached.

Professor Iain Gordon, chief executive of the James Hutton Institute, said decoding the potato genome was a completely fucking pointless exercise undertaken by a few pissed up sweaty sock scientists looking for another excuse for another piss up.

interesting.

Interesting?

no eric, it's not, it's completely fucking pointless

a load of sweats have sacrificed their lives of cleverness, choosing not to try to improve healthcare or save lives but they have dedicated their existence to probably drinking real ale and breaking down a spud into it's component parts - something i do every time i make mash

Abdul Kowalski wrote:no eric, it's not, it's completely fucking pointless

a load of sweats have sacrificed their lives of cleverness, choosing not to try to improve healthcare or save lives but they have dedicated their existence to probably drinking real ale and breaking down a spud into it's component parts - something i do every time i make mash

jesus,
i was being sarcastic.

wich planet are you two posting from today?

erixter wrote:

Abdul Kowalski wrote:no eric, it's not, it's completely fucking pointless

a load of sweats have sacrificed their lives of cleverness, choosing not to try to improve healthcare or save lives but they have dedicated their existence to probably drinking real ale and breaking down a spud into it's component parts - something i do every time i make mash

jesus,
i was being sarcastic.

wich planet are you two posting from today?

Surgeons practise on oranges.

Think about it

tell that to the irish.

yeah but that couldn't happen again.
could it?

dunno.thats probably what they are trying to prevent.

Abdul Kowalski wrote:An international team of scientists based in Scotland has decoded the full DNA sequence of the potato for the first time.

The breakthrough holds out the promise of preventing illness and stuff among of one of the world's most important staple crops.

Researchers at the James Hutton Institute in Dundee say it should soon be possible to develop improved varieties of potato much more quickly that are less susceptible to catching a cold or things like that.

Each individual potato has a slightly different version of the DNA sequence for the species and this discovery would also help prevent potato crime if the Scottish parliament allow a potato DNA database to be collated, although civil libery groups are against this, complaining the rights of the common potato could be breached.

Professor Iain Gordon, chief executive of the James Hutton Institute, said decoding the potato genome was a completely fucking pointless exercise undertaken by a few pissed up sweaty sock scientists looking for another excuse for another piss up.

morning_glory wrote:dunno.thats probably what they are trying to prevent.

well,
we'd be buggered without 'em.

for sure.

not much on those sweet ones.

but,
well,
if that's all there were.

erixter wrote:yeah but that couldn't happen again.
could it?

no eric, as they are officially skint, if they run out of spuds again richer countries like india and china would send them some food aid ready meals - even the micks can operate a microwave

Abdul Kowalski wrote:

erixter wrote:yeah but that couldn't happen again.
could it?

no eric, as they are officially skint, if they run out of spuds again richer countries like india and china would send them some food aid ready meals - even the micks can operate a microwave

true.

NotBert wrote:Surgeons practise on oranges.

Think about it

morning_glory wrote:tell that to the irish.

I rang Dublin General and said as much. They said they knew but if a gashed orange ever came in, they'd "send the fecker to Belfast"?