If I'm reading this right, it means that farmers can plant seeds taken from their own crops, and get the same yields in successive years. Usually hybred seeds have to be bought from the manufacturer, and are good for only one year. The seeds they produce don't yield as much when planted. So this seems like a good thing, even if it is frankenrice.
If I'm reading this right, it means that farmers can plant seeds taken from their own crops, and get the same yields in successive years. Usually hybred seeds have to be bought from the manufacturer, and are good for only one year. The seeds they produce don't yield as much when planted. So this seems like a good thing, even if it is frankenrice.
Yes, rice farmers won't have to pay Monsanto & co. every year. This could make quite an impact in poor countries.
Yes, rice farmers won't have to pay Monsanto & co. every year. This could make quite an impact in poor countries.
Not indefinitely, but for several years.
Sundaresan, Khanday and colleagues in France, Germany and Ghana have now achieved a clonal efficiency of 95 percent, using a commercial hybrid rice strain, and shown that the process could be sustained for at least three generations.
Not indefinitely, but for several years.
> Sundaresan, Khanday and colleagues in France, Germany and Ghana have now achieved a clonal efficiency of 95 percent, using a commercial hybrid rice strain, and shown that the process could be sustained for at least three generations.
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