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comment by hanszyme
hanszyme  ·  3406 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Genetically modified rice makes more food, less greenhouse gas

Instead of just taking a few genes from Barley and sticking it into rice, we should just make a new super human-made grain-starch-grass-plant... that you can all use for biofuel and clothing if you want... beer and bread too.

We need this plant.





thundara  ·  3406 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"Just"

Most things you've suggested people work on, but using starting plants that are already good at doing that one thing. Hard to optimize them all simultaneously.