It is possible to make plants more efficient food producers.
Hard to know how much more efficient wheat plants will be with this change.
More GMO ... All we need
I wonder if they can do this with other grains like corn, barley, rye and rice?
Whiskey, Beer, saki, etc. would benefit...............
It is possible to make plants more efficient food producers.
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
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.
Humans aren’t the only thing that eats plants. When plants are made more nutritious, insects are drawn to them as well.
Hard to know how much more efficient wheat plants will be with this change.
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Now who is going to provide the added nutrient, water and improved conditions needed to support the added fruit mass?
Norman Borlaug developed today’s dwarf wheat varieties through hybridization. Today’s wheat yields are far more limited by weather than by quantity of berries per plant.