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Rice Genome Project.... Done!

Posted by michael on from the rice-rice-baby dept.

AtomicBomb writes "First, it was human; now, it is rice. The gene code for the first important crop will soon be (sort of) available. BBC provides us a few more articles. Hopefully, the genetic informatuion can speed up the breeding of tougher and higher-yielding varieties that will benefit the world's burgeoning population..."

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  1. More Rice = Higher Population by pertinax18 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    benefit the world's burgeoning population

    Actually it will continue the vicious cycle of overpopulation that we are currently in. The more food we have, the more babies we have and the faster the population grows. It is a simple fact that healthy well fed people (especially in 3rd world nations) are going to have more kids than people who have just enough food to feed only a small family. We are probably better off trying to decrease food production instead of increase it.