I guess you're right, mostly. GM crops are primarily in the US. The rice strains I was thinking of were modified the old fashioned way.
-Cameron On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > Not really, no. Arguably the biggest contribution to increased yields > and disease resistence is the development of multiline varieties along > with heavy artificial selection to target certain characteristics. > Take a look at the work of Norman Borlaug and his development of > multi-variety dwarf wheat for an example. This sort of work does > produce a considerably wide variation in genetics, so in that sense > you could say it is "genetically modified" but anything undergoing > directional selection is then "genetically modified". And, more to the > point regarding "frankenfood" it is utterly different than something > like Bt which takes protein-encoding genes from a bacteria and melds > it into the proteome of corn. This, more properly, is known as being > transgenic and is what people generally mean when they refer to > "genetically modified" food ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:315696 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
