Annie
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In the Luddite atmosphere observed on the ATM thread, perhaps mass starvation is a better alternative than genetic engineered disease resistant crops?
Science for the win: New wheat variety beats superbug, has higher yield | SciGuy | a Chron.com blog
Science for the win: New wheat variety beats superbug, has higher yield | SciGuy | a Chron.com blog
Science for the win: New wheat variety beats superbug, has higher yield
Some 90 percent of the wheat grown in the world today is susceptible to a new form of wheat rust, a crop-killing virus dubbed the polio of agriculture.
Older forms of wheat rust spoiled crops for millenia before scientists developed varieties of wheat that could resist it. But recently agriculture researchers have become concerned about a nasty variant of wheat rust known as UG99 that is rapidly spreading beyond East Africa, where it was first found in 1999...