singular_me
11th May 2016, 11:00 AM
there is a solution for everything... as much as I am sure that they already know how to overcome cell phone and wifi radiations
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Breeding technique allows farmers to conventionally breed plants based on genetic markers; GMOs are unnecessary, costly, dangerous and now obsolete
11 May 2016
‘Advances in conventional breeding techniques have now rendered genetic engineering obsolete, according to a report authored by independent scientist Benno Vogel and published by Greenpeace. Indeed, the conventional breeding technique known as marker-assisted selection (MAS) allows farmers to rapidly develop new strains of important crops, without the high costs or dangers of genetic engineering.
Genetic engineering, which produces genetically modified organisms (GMOs), consists of using biotechnology techniques to alter the DNA of organisms. In contrast, MAS uses biotechnology only to identify genetic markers linked to traits that farmers find desirable, such as pest or drought resistance.
More successful than GMOs
In the short time since its development, MAS has already delivered remarkable successes leading to real-world benefits in food production. For example, the Greenpeace report cites the use of MAS to develop new strains of rice that are resistant to bacterial leaf blight, a major threat to irrigated and rain-fed rice crops in China, India and Indonesia. MAS has also been used to nearly eliminate rice blast in Korea and Thailand, which formerly led to the loss of up to 30 percent of the annual harvest.
Other MAS successes include the development of North American wheat with fungal resistance, cassava in Nigeria and Tanzania resistant to cassava mosaic disease, striga resistance in sorghum in Sudan and other African countries, and downy mildew resistance in pearl millet in Northern India. Beyond disease resistance, MAS has also delivered varieties of rice that are tolerant to both floods and droughts.
"Ten years ago, MAS was in its infancy, but is now so commonplace that it isn't always possible to determine whether a variety has been developed using MAS or traditional conventional breeding," Vogel wrote. "This throws a sharp light on the GE crop controversy, which has been going on for over 20 years, but with little development beyond the limited range of herbicide tolerant and insect resistant traits in major commodity crops."
http://www.naturalnews.com/053977_marker-assisted_selection_conventional_breeding_GMOs.html
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Breeding technique allows farmers to conventionally breed plants based on genetic markers; GMOs are unnecessary, costly, dangerous and now obsolete
11 May 2016
‘Advances in conventional breeding techniques have now rendered genetic engineering obsolete, according to a report authored by independent scientist Benno Vogel and published by Greenpeace. Indeed, the conventional breeding technique known as marker-assisted selection (MAS) allows farmers to rapidly develop new strains of important crops, without the high costs or dangers of genetic engineering.
Genetic engineering, which produces genetically modified organisms (GMOs), consists of using biotechnology techniques to alter the DNA of organisms. In contrast, MAS uses biotechnology only to identify genetic markers linked to traits that farmers find desirable, such as pest or drought resistance.
More successful than GMOs
In the short time since its development, MAS has already delivered remarkable successes leading to real-world benefits in food production. For example, the Greenpeace report cites the use of MAS to develop new strains of rice that are resistant to bacterial leaf blight, a major threat to irrigated and rain-fed rice crops in China, India and Indonesia. MAS has also been used to nearly eliminate rice blast in Korea and Thailand, which formerly led to the loss of up to 30 percent of the annual harvest.
Other MAS successes include the development of North American wheat with fungal resistance, cassava in Nigeria and Tanzania resistant to cassava mosaic disease, striga resistance in sorghum in Sudan and other African countries, and downy mildew resistance in pearl millet in Northern India. Beyond disease resistance, MAS has also delivered varieties of rice that are tolerant to both floods and droughts.
"Ten years ago, MAS was in its infancy, but is now so commonplace that it isn't always possible to determine whether a variety has been developed using MAS or traditional conventional breeding," Vogel wrote. "This throws a sharp light on the GE crop controversy, which has been going on for over 20 years, but with little development beyond the limited range of herbicide tolerant and insect resistant traits in major commodity crops."
http://www.naturalnews.com/053977_marker-assisted_selection_conventional_breeding_GMOs.html