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  "thread": {
    "id": 5506,
    "subject": "Spiny oranges",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2009-11-04T13:16:51+00:00",
    "last": "2009-11-04T13:16:51+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<4AF17EC3.4040306@verizon.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Stockhoff",
        "address": "dstockhoff at verizon.net"
      },
      "date": "2009-11-04T13:16:51+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Spiny oranges",
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          "text": "Certainly, plant species with male and female PLANTS are not good \ncandidates for staple food crops, nor for the co-evolutionary process \nthat produced humanity's staple crops. The mating season is too tricky! \nYou might have plenty of females but no males around, and you'd starve.\n\nMore to the point, you need a rapid progression of generations to \n\"naturally\" breed a useful food crop from an edible jungle plant. It \nalso helps to have an aggressive colonizing habit. All our staple crops \nare essentially weeds that grow easily in disturbed soil. You need a \nplant that is highly effective at producing seeds. Thus, crops bred from \ngrasses.\n\nBut neither separate FLOWERS, nor sexes combined in the same FLOWER, \npose these problems."
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