DrFever
New Member
or better yet how bout this
Researchers say they have genetically altered wheat for the first time, an achievement that could help lead to improved yields around the world.
Scientists at the University of Florida and the Monsanto Company said Tuesday that the foreign gene they had introduced into wheat had produced an enzyme that had rendered many powerful herbicides harmless to the wheat. The work is to be reported in the June issue of the journal Bio/Technology.
An author of the report, Dr. Indra K. Vasil of the university's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, said that a field of wheat with the newly introduced trait could be treated with modern herbicides, like those made by Monsanto, to control weeds without harming the wheat. The wheat would then thrive without competition for water or nutrients. Doubling World's Food
"In the next 30 to 50 years, we must produce double the amount of food to feed the world," Dr. Vasil said. "At the moment, we lose an enormous amount of food to insects, pests and drought. By adding genes we can protect the total amount of food that's produced, and that will take us a long way toward solving the food problem
Researchers say they have genetically altered wheat for the first time, an achievement that could help lead to improved yields around the world.
Scientists at the University of Florida and the Monsanto Company said Tuesday that the foreign gene they had introduced into wheat had produced an enzyme that had rendered many powerful herbicides harmless to the wheat. The work is to be reported in the June issue of the journal Bio/Technology.
An author of the report, Dr. Indra K. Vasil of the university's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, said that a field of wheat with the newly introduced trait could be treated with modern herbicides, like those made by Monsanto, to control weeds without harming the wheat. The wheat would then thrive without competition for water or nutrients. Doubling World's Food
"In the next 30 to 50 years, we must produce double the amount of food to feed the world," Dr. Vasil said. "At the moment, we lose an enormous amount of food to insects, pests and drought. By adding genes we can protect the total amount of food that's produced, and that will take us a long way toward solving the food problem