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I wonder if such bacteria can be designed in a lab.

And then used to attack developing countries massive agricultural production.

Let's say, china and india are growing export regions.

And if American or Russian companies design a specific bacteria to target their major agricultural exports then the prices will go up due to falling supply.

So is this possible? Could this be happening somewhere in the world?




It's probably easier to screen for existing bacterial strains that do such a job, instead of designing them.


Yes. About a billion times easier. Just send a few tourists in who are contaminated.


It'd probably be a bad idea since the disease would probably spread to the other growing areas eventually.


Although it's possible, occams razor does not suggest it is the most likely reason




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