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Major Science Breakthrough: Rice Genome Mapped

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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-08-11 10:51|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Oh no - get ready for Frankenrice! Rally the townsfolk, get the torches and pitchforks!

Posted by Xbalanke 2005-08-11 11:20|| 2005-08-11 11:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Actually, we already have "Golden Rice," which lets thousands of children in Asia be able to see. Of course, the usual evil greenies don't want that to expand to millions. Who cares if millions are blind because of the simple lack of a few vitamins? They're not white, anyway.

Greens == Nazis.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-08-11 11:40|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-08-11 11:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Does that mean we will have plenty of Condolezzas?

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-08-11 11:55|| 2005-08-11 11:55|| Front Page Top

#4 To put this into perspective, in the 1970s, to prevent the US, Canada and Argentina from becoming so predominant in world food production as to create world-wide dependency, the USDA began a program to create grain cross-breeds that were far hardier, disease and insect resistant, and needing less water. Of the few hundred cross-breeds they created, they exported seed for free and re-established subsistence farming as viable production in much of the world. Planted crop food grains have thus expanded their range on the planet by many fold. And this was just with a few hundred simple cross-breeds. By knowing the grain genome, thousands of nutritionally and agriculturally tailored grains may create a second, decentralized "green revolution."

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-08-11 12:14|| 2005-08-11 12:14|| Front Page Top

#5 JFM, we can only hope. It would make the world a better place.

Posted by RWV 2005-08-11 14:07|| 2005-08-11 14:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Condi?...

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-08-11 20:34|| 2005-08-11 20:34|| Front Page Top

#7 wait til it's perfected then Kim Jong Il will announce his discovery of it

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-11 22:18|| 2005-08-11 22:18|| Front Page Top

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