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- | **Presenter:** Ms. Mayweather, could you tell us about your work here? What have been the biggest challenges? | + | **Presenter:** What have been the biggest challenges here on b-Exagora? |
- | **Lyla:** Well, of course, there were the riots in the beginning, and the issues with NEXUS, but as for //interesting// challenges, the biggest was the pollination issue, of course. Now, many of the plant species we grow here are typically insect-pollinated, and while there are many things we can do with modified plants - I'm sure you've heard about the work I did with geraniums in the early years - pollinators were always an issue. As b-Exagora has no native insect life, it was almost a decade after we began work that we could first import bees... | + | **Lyla:** Well, of course, there were the riots in the beginning, and the issues with NEXUS, but as for //interesting// challenges, the biggest was the pollination issue, of course. Now, many of the plant species we grow here are typically insect-pollinated, and while there are many things we can do with modified plants - I'm sure you've heard about the work I did with geraniums in the early years - pollinators were always an issue. As b-Exagora has no native insect life, it was almost a decade after we began work before we could first import bees... |