From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Fri May 30 2003 - 22:30:38 MDT
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Party of Citizens wrote:
> Selective breeding using the existing gene pool is primarily if not solely
> responsible for agricultural improvements. It is assumed that the gene
> pool changes due to mutations but I have never seen proof of this.
> Until then I would not say that mutation has any proven benefit to
> agricultural improvement.
You may want to Google on "green revolution" and "dwarf rice".
I believe that dwarf rice are a result of a mutation in the
sd1 (semi-dwarf 1) gene. If one doesn't consider the "green
revolution" an "agricultural improvement" (probably feeding
millions of more people than would be fed without the sd1
mutation) then I don't know what would be.
But go ahead... raise the bar a little higher and if I'm
really ambitious tomorrow I'll see if I can leap over it.
:-)
Robert
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