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Someone was explaining to me that wheat in the US is often genetically modified to be more dense (and therefore more profitable) by just copy pasting the genes
by macawfish 9y ago
Someone was explaining to me that wheat in the US is often genetically modified to be more dense (and therefore more profitable) by just copy pasting the genes that make gluten a bunch of times. So that wheat in the US has way more gluten in it.
- RobertRoberts 9y agoI have a friend who works for a GMO company, he said (just this past week) there is no GMO wheat. Anywhere. Yet. fyi. Surprised the crap out of me. Edit: Soy beans and corn are the big GMO crops right now. I am sure there are lots of veges and fruit, but he works in the grain industry, so I have no confirmation on this.
- phonon 9y agoSort of. Dwarf wheat has some changes from older wheat varieties. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2963738/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2963738/
- RobertRoberts 9y agoThat article is titled with "wheat breeding", I am fairly certain that breeding is not GMO. Some source that says otherwise?
- phonon 9y agoThat's the "sort of". How do you define "GMO"? See https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/28/science/28crop.html https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/28/science/28crop.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_breeding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_breeding for example. "Breeding" new plant varieties by creating mutations in existing ones has a long history.