Subject: Goodbye to Golden Rice? GM Trait Leads to Drastic Yield Loss and "Metabolic Meltdown"
Dear Friends and Colleagues
Published today (Wednesday, Oct 25th) on Independent Science News
Goodbye to Golden Rice? GM Trait Leads to Drastic Yield Loss and "Metabolic Meltdown"
by Allison Wilson, PhD
Synopsis: For nearly
20 years, GMO Golden Rice has been promoted as a potent tool to alleviate
vitamin A deficiency. Golden Rice has never been commercialised, however, and its failure to reach the market has been blamed on
“over-regulation” and on “anti-GMO” opposition. Recent research
by Indian scientists shows that introducing Golden Rice transgenes had unexpected detrimental effects. Their high yielding and agronomically superior Indian rice variety became
pale and stunted, with yields so reduced it was unsuitable for cultivation
(Bollinedi et al. 2017). This research has obvious implications for Golden Rice, particularly by suggesting that nutritionally
useful GMO Golden Rice may be an impossibility. As Dr Wilson explains, it also throws a substantial shadow over the
general feasibility of nutritional enhancement by GMO technology.
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Yours sincerely
Jonathan
Jonathan Latham, PhD
Executive Director
The Bioscience Resource Project
Ithaca, NY 14850 USA
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