THC Orange Tree

valuablevariable

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fake, it would take longer than that to cross and mutate orange trees, they take too long to grow to have done multiple generations..
 

thecloset

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They don't need multiple generations man, did you read the 101 on the right side? He made whatever DNA shit and "infested" an already growing tree, which would then be inherited. I have no idea if it makes sense, but if not, the reason would not be for needing multiple generations.
 

valuablevariable

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Well its pretty damn hard to get that kind of stuff right the first try, thats why you have many many generations, just like crossing marijuana strains untill you get it just right. And this isnt as easy as that either, he was trying to get something into oranges that doesnt occur naturally.
 

DWR

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the new drug :P rofl our kids will be taking oranges.. we will be like WTF SMOKE IT BITCH ^^
 

anywhere311

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lol at the end it says
The South to the Future World Wide Wire Service is a weekly feed of technology and media news commentary and satire published by the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Quotations attributed to public figures who are satirized are often true, but sometimes invented. Some fictional statements may, in fact, be true. Any other use of real names is accidental and coincidental. Editorial questions may be sent to John Paczkowski.
showing its fake
 

Psychedelics and Chronic

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lol at the end it says
The South to the Future World Wide Wire Service is a weekly feed of technology and media news commentary and satire published by the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Quotations attributed to public figures who are satirized are often true, but sometimes invented. Some fictional statements may, in fact, be true. Any other use of real names is accidental and coincidental. Editorial questions may be sent to John Paczkowski.
showing its fake
Damn....I just wanted some potent OJ
 

mr j2

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this can't be real. This would be a national news type story. Something like that would create so much controversy
 

redway420

Active Member
It's an old, well crafted hoax recently rediscovered, dusted off, and put back on the net
again. It's been on a dozen or more forums starting with High Times.

V/H
 

pakalolo808

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Well although it hasnt been done, it is totally possible.

a friend of mine who is a biology professor at UC riverside specializes in spiders and their silks. Because of the amazing properties of spider silks (tensile strength, flexiblity, elasticity, etc.) some people want to find ways to utilize the silk. unfortunatley its really hard to extract the silk from the individual spiders.

to solve this problem, she put spider silk producing DNA into a tomato plant and that tomato plant produces spider silk proteins at from every cell of the plant. the same could be done with THC.

having a THC producing tomato would be easy to do in comparison to other trans-species DNA transplanting that has been done (ie. spider silk-tomatoes, or glow in the dark mice)

just fyi: My 9th grade brother's bio class did a DNA substitution to make this bacteria glow. (granted this is much easier than the aforementioned examples due to the single celled nature of the bacteria)

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]This is a simplified explenation of DNA substitution[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Biochemically isolate all the required enzymes for the production of THC.[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Step Two:[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Perform N-terminal sequencing on isolated enzymes, design degenerate PCR (polymerase chain reaction) primers and amplify the genes. [/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Step Three:[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Clone genes into an agrobacterial vector by introducing the desired piece of DNA into a plasmid containing a transfer or T-DNA. The mixture is transformed into Agrobacterium tumefaciens, a gram negative bacterium. [/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Step Four:[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Use the Agrobacterium tumefaciens to infect citrus plants after wounding. The transfer DNA will proceed to host cells by a mechanism similar to conjugation. The DNA is randomly integrated into the host genome and will be inherited. [/FONT]
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kronicsmurf

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HAHA WTF ???? thc oranges huh? wow i want some. Imagine waking up every morning to a tall glass of thc orange juice Rofl Peace;)
 

Nixes

Active Member
I don't know if this particular story is fake or true, but I have a degree in biochemistry, and the methods described are actually quite true.

Furthermore, cannabis doesn't just have Delta-9-THC, it has an incredibly wide variety of other cannabinoid products that are similar and possibly psychoactive (not enough research has been done on them to confirm or refute that). Tetrahydrocannabinolic Acid Synthase, the primary enzyme that creates THC, is well known. The Journal of Plant and Cell Physiology that shows that THC Acid Synthase is produced extensively in the grandular head of the trichomes. ( http://pcp.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/46/9/1578 ). A savvy biochemist could use this info to extract and sequence the enzymes, create a genetic vector with their protein code, and inject that vector into another plant. In fact, it's was done and published in 2007. ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17669365 )

Anything you read on the internet should be taken with skepticism and scrutiny, but all i'm suggesting that what this guy did is at least feasible, in theory.
 
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