Tag / agriculture
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How to train your plant
Genes for resistance against plant pathogens can be transferred from one species to another. Huge losses in agricultural yield can be thus avoided and the use of pesticides reduced.. An example are genes from the sunflower that can make soy beans resistant against soy bean rust.
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Not quite a normal harvest (2)
Please note the Addendum from April 4th, 2023 at the very end of the article! An interview with Ingo Potrykus, one of the inventors of Golden Rice In 1992, Ingo Potrykus together with Peter Beyer, started to develop “Golden Rice,” a variant enriched with the vitamin A precursor ß-carotene to help alleviate malnutrition, especially in…
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Not quite a normal harvest (1)
The background to the “Golden Rice” project It has become very quiet around the “Golden Rice” in recent years. Everything seemed to have been said and the work “behind the scenes” found little public interest. But now it has reappeared in the media – for example in a very good article in the “Republik ”…