@ADHansonLab If interested in optimizing for human use, you can lump it with "wasteful inefficiencies." That was part of the rationale for CM Donald's wheat ideotype, where he had also formulated a version of the tragedy of the commons in proposing a "weak
@AJStein_de @AgBioWorld The ‘non-competitive ideotype’ goes back at least as far as CM Donald in 1968 (which this article cites). https://t.co/rMYGq9eYoc
RT @SamWuest1: How comes I never heard about Donald's ideotype paper during my studies in Plant Biology? It's so cool! https://t.co/vVWwHfR…
... and it inspired other great papers such as Jake Weiner's "Sustainable Agroecology ... " - https://t.co/LLqWlBnlFq Working full-speed on our Arabidopsis follow-up, with genetics and all fancy pants! https://t.co/3BCaXtdMaz