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Countless fans took to social media to share ways they're enjoying brie before the cheese is gone for good
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Ok i totally did not expect a cheese(technically the fungus) to go extinct but here we are. I wonder how it grow naturally since it has to be cloned.
This seems like a really good time to test out some CRISPR adjustments.. I mean if it’s going to die out anyway, may as well tinker with it now and see if they can reintroduce sexual gene transfer. Let it breed itself into robustness once more. Probably change the taste but that’s the price.
The fungus originated through artificial selection of P. biforme around 1900, which in turn was a result of artificial selection among P. fuscoglaucum.[8]
In 2024, the French National Centre for Scientific Research warned that the spore-producing ability of albino strains of P. camemberti have declined due to prolonged vegetative reproduction. The Norman cheese industry now struggles to find enough spores to inoculate their cheese with.[10]
