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I bought spores of Ceratopteris richardsii, which if I will be able to grow, might become the most researchable plant among all species our Department works with. Who knows, we may even enter the international community, win grants and publish papers in serious journals... Sorry, I'm posting this mostly to have some warm feeling to counteract the cost of delivery to Ukraine. Still, it's a start, isn't it?..
For those of why don't know much about this sort of thing can you tell us why you are optimistic about C. richardsii?
Sorry, I erred on the side of brevity. It's a rapidly propagating, well-adapted to in vitro culture fern whose genome, I think, has been sequenced and mutants (many of them viable) described in detail. Compared to irregularly reproducing, of-unknown-variety-within-a-variable-species, growing-in-the-wild plants with who knows how many offspring missed in survey, it's a goldmine. I only have to persuade my Dept. Head of this.