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Scientists Just Found a Tiny Genetic Switch That Could Feed Billions
Scitech Daily ^
| October 21, 2025
| University of Maryland
Posted on 10/21/2025 6:50:13 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Diana in Wisconsin; SunkenCiv
Agriculture Ping!...............
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posted on
10/21/2025 6:50:49 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
It is possible to make plants more efficient food producers.
Hard to know how much more efficient wheat plants will be with this change.
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posted on
10/21/2025 6:58:15 AM PDT
by
marktwain
To: marktwain
To: marktwain
I wonder if they can do this with other grains like corn, barley, rye and rice?
Whiskey, Beer, saki, etc. would benefit...............
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posted on
10/21/2025 7:00:40 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
From the original Star Trek series: The Trouble with Tribbles by David Gerrold.
Quatro-Triticale.
Can tribble be far behind?
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posted on
10/21/2025 7:05:31 AM PDT
by
normbal
(normbal. Non-native Tennessean.)
To: Red Badger
Frankenfood!
Frankenfood!
Frankenfood!
Frankenfood!
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posted on
10/21/2025 7:08:34 AM PDT
by
larrytown
(A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
To: Red Badger
genetic key behind a rare wheat variety that produces three grains where ordinary wheat grows just one.
going to need more co2
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posted on
10/21/2025 7:09:46 AM PDT
by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
To: Red Badger
So can we assume the “we are overpopulated and need to reduce headcount” crowd has the week off?
To: Red Badger
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posted on
10/21/2025 7:15:24 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(PLAUSIBLY ANTI-SEMITIC POSTS: Hardspunned 90% Nitzy 88% Right_In_Virginia 84% Liz 50% Mac_Truck 32%)
To: Red Badger
Just beware of the Tribbles.
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posted on
10/21/2025 7:16:56 AM PDT
by
left that other site
( For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; He will save us Is.33:22)
To: marktwain
It is possible to make plants more efficient food producers.
Yes, but there are always tradeoffs. For corn production it was lower protein and oil content in trade off of yield volume
The management goal of corn production and other crops is yield, not quality factors for the most part. Yield is even more important than profit. Do you ever hear a farmer talk about quality factors or profit per acre, never in my life time. If you ask them what their average ten year yield was, they would tell you their highest yield. and it was the highest yield they managed for.
I spent 30 years analyzing farm records.
But that is no different than employees managing for highest wage, not net wage. Much of the 2nd wage is spent on childcare, etc
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posted on
10/21/2025 7:20:10 AM PDT
by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
To: Red Badger
And now everyone can be allergic to wheat.
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posted on
10/21/2025 7:23:52 AM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: Raycpa
Everyone is allergic to wheat.
Just some more than others.
We are not cows........
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posted on
10/21/2025 7:24:38 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger; Diana in Wisconsin; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; ..
Thanks! Of course, this means three times as much whining about gluten.
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posted on
10/21/2025 7:26:14 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: marktwain
Wheat can keep you alive but it’s not part of a proper human diet.
The ancient Egyptians were bread eaters. CT scans of mummies reveal they had diabetes and heart disease, eating (very) ancient grains.
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posted on
10/21/2025 7:27:26 AM PDT
by
JohnnyP
(Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
To: SunkenCiv
Just what we need: more cholesterol, heart disease, rotten teeth and fat people.................
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posted on
10/21/2025 7:27:49 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: George from New England
Dude...
ALL food is gmo...
all of it
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posted on
10/21/2025 7:28:20 AM PDT
by
joe fonebone
(And the people said NO!! The end.)
To: Red Badger
Norman Borlaug - the man that fed Asis
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posted on
10/21/2025 7:32:50 AM PDT
by
struggle
To: Red Badger
That comes from added sugar and soybean products.
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posted on
10/21/2025 7:33:42 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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