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Yes it did increase the risk. Before the green revolution there were a lot of very different wheat varieties around the world. In fact, if my memory is correct
by bh42 16y ago
Yes it did increase the risk.
Before the green revolution there were a lot of very different wheat varieties around the world. In fact, if my memory is correct, during the selective breeding for high yields one of the breakthroughs came from a thick and sturdy stalked dwarf wheat from Japan. The stalk genes it had produced a stalk strong enough to carry the new large yields.
The point being, we used to have a large variety of geno and phenotype around the world, and now we don't.