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\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \nAboveCapricorn: GM Can Do Wonders with Food Crops<\/title><\/p>\n<link href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/dyn-css\/authorization.css?targetBlogID=36976850&zx=bfe5767c-b4b0-4e8c-a957-bc29ebde58a4\" media=\"none\" onload=\"if(media!='all')media='all'\" rel=\"stylesheet\"\/><noscript><link href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/dyn-css\/authorization.css?targetBlogID=36976850&zx=bfe5767c-b4b0-4e8c-a957-bc29ebde58a4\" rel=\"stylesheet\"\/><\/noscript><br \/>\n<meta name=\"google-adsense-platform-account\" content=\"ca-host-pub-1556223355139109\"\/><br \/>\n<meta name=\"google-adsense-platform-domain\" content=\"blogspot.com\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/head><br \/>\n<body id=\"wp_automatic_ReadabilityBody\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"outer-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"wrap2\">\n<!-- skip links for text browsers --><br \/>\n<span id=\"skiplinks\" style=\"display:none;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"#main\">skip to main <\/a> |<br \/>\n <a href=\"#sidebar\">skip to sidebar<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"content-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"main-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"main section\" id=\"main\">\n<div class=\"widget Blog\" data-version=\"1\" id=\"Blog1\">\n<div class=\"blog-posts hfeed\">\n<div class=\"date-outer\">\n<div class=\"date-posts\">\n<div class=\"post-outer\">\n<div class=\"post hentry uncustomized-post-template\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\">\n<meta content=\"36976850\" itemprop=\"blogId\"\/><br \/>\n<meta content=\"3802336042235883749\" itemprop=\"postId\"\/><br \/>\n<a name=\"3802336042235883749\"\/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\" itemprop=\"name\">\nGM Can Do Wonders with Food Crops<br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\" id=\"post-body-3802336042235883749\" itemprop=\"description articleBody\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Some recent information provides even more success stories in yield increases in major crops using modern options in genetic modification.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Example 1<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #656565;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abca.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=f0bbe3f53d8ceaf0bc0e38372&id=566e9e0514&e=0c6f6f866d\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: green;\">New genetically modified corn<br \/>\nproduces up to 10% more than similar types<\/span><\/a><br \/><strong>Science<\/strong>\u00a0–<br \/>\n04 November 2019<br \/>Researchers have for the first time conclusively shown they can increase corn<br \/>\nyields up to 10% by changing a gene that increases plant growth\u2014regardless of<br \/>\nwhether growing conditions are poor or optimal.\u00a0\u2026researchers at Corteva<br \/>\nAgriscience, a chemical and seed company based in Wilmington, Delaware, decided<br \/>\nto look at genes that function like master switches for growth and yield. They<br \/>\npicked MADS-box genes, a group common in many plants, before settling on one (<em>zmm28<\/em>) to alter in corn<br \/>\nplants. The researchers tested the enhanced gene\u2019s performance in 48 commercial<br \/>\ntypes of corn, known as hybrids,\u00a0that are commonly used to feed livestock<br \/>\nand found yield increases ranging from 3-10% with the findings published this<br \/>\nweek in the\u00a0<cite>Proceedings<br \/>\nof the National Academy of Sciences<\/cite>.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #656565;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #656565;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Example 2.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #656565;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #656565;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abca.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=f0bbe3f53d8ceaf0bc0e38372&id=b78ce5f541&e=0c6f6f866d\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: green;\">Researchers Use Gene Modification to<br \/>\nDefeat Rice-Killing Disease<\/span><\/a><br \/><strong>Karma Impact<\/strong>\u00a0–<br \/>\n31 October 2019<br \/>Researchers successfully edited the genome of strains of rice grown in<br \/>\nSoutheast Asia and West Africa to block a pathogen [bacterial blight] that<br \/>\nravages yields of the staple crop, the latest example of gene modification that<br \/>\nmay reduce hunger throughout the world.Scientists at Manila\u2019s International<br \/>\nRice Research Institute used CRISPR\/Cas9 gene editing to prevent rice from<br \/>\nexpressing genes that serve as Xoo\u2019s point of entry to hijack the plant\u2019s<br \/>\nnutrients, according to<a href=\"https:\/\/abca.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=f0bbe3f53d8ceaf0bc0e38372&id=84090ef2b7&e=0c6f6f866d\" style=\"-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span style=\"color: green;\">\u00a0Nature<\/span><\/a>. The team found that rice plants<br \/>\nwith these engineered genes were resistant to at least\u00a095 Xoo strains.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #656565;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #656565; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Both crops are major food sources world wide, and using GM techniques can add big increases in yield quite quickly.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #656565; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #656565; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Another “biggie” is Vitamin A enhanced rice – and Bangladesh seems likely to approve its use very soon.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #656565; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #656565; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Example 3<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #656565; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #656565;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abca.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=f0bbe3f53d8ceaf0bc0e38372&id=7e1f5104b6&e=0c6f6f866d\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: green;\">Bangladesh close to releasing Golden<br \/>\nRice<\/span><\/a><br \/><strong>Dhaka Tribune\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013<br \/>\n28 October 2019<br \/>Bangladesh will soon make a decision on the release of Golden Rice. According<br \/>\nto the WHO one in every five pre-school children and 23.7% of pregnant women<br \/>\nsuffer from vitamin A deficiency in Bangladesh.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #656565;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #656565;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- spacer for skins that want sidebar and main to be the same height--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- end content-wrapper -->\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- end outer-wrapper --><\/p>\n<p><\/body>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AboveCapricorn: GM Can Do Wonders with Food Crops skip to main | skip to sidebar GM Can Do Wonders with Food Crops Some recent information provides even more success stories in yield increases in major crops using modern options in genetic modification. 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