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Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "2-metre ‘giant rice’ twice as tall as other varieties nearly ready for first harvest in China" video.
If they can increase yield by 50% then that is an amazing achievement! But if we don't hear more news about this variety in the future, it will be because they didn't increase the yield (at least for the same input).
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@jazeenharal6013 "gene editing to splice, add and remove segments of DNA code" is just an advanced, scientific way of selective breeding. There is zero reason to believe that GMO foods are more likely to be unhealthy/dangerous than varieties bred in a more traditional way. Both methods may end up with unwanted results, but those are weeded out. That's what the 'selective' in selective breeding means.
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All living beings are GMO. That's what evolution by natural selection is: Modifying the genome each generation.
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@tc98826 "Surely it needs less yield since each one is twice the size". No, yield is measured in mass/area, for example Kg per hectare, or in China's case, jin per mou.
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@acuantjahyadi7393 I do not speak Bahasa Indonesia, except ayam goreng, terimah kasih.
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@martinsky2086 The height of the plant has no relation to the amount of grain it produces. In fact, wheat has become progressively shorter in recent decades by (human) choice. We have made wheat shorter to make it more resistant to rain and wind without buckling or falling over. Making wheat shorter has not reduced the yield.
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@jazeenharal6013 Well, I guess we disagree on that.
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@acuantjahyadi7393 ???
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@SlavaUkraini2025-n3n I'm sure you're right. The reason for my skepticism is that in my several decades in China I have heard constant news of technological breakthroughs of all kinds. More often than not, they fizzle out and we never hear about them again. Even the famed Hybrid Rice seems to be slowly losing ground. It doesn't have the consistent high yields that were promised. Crop acreage of Hybrid Rice in China has decreased by 25% since the late 90s.
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