<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Jonathan Latham</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jrlatham@bioscienceresource.org">jrlatham@bioscienceresource.org</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 11:23 PM<br>Subject: Goodbye to Golden Rice? GM Trait Leads to Drastic Yield Loss and "Metabolic Meltdown"<br>To: <a href="mailto:bsr-PROJECT-ELIST1@gn.apc.org">bsr-PROJECT-ELIST1@gn.apc.org</a><br><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Dear Friends and Colleagues</div><div><br></div><div>Published today (Wednesday, Oct 25th) on <i>Independent Science News</i></div><div><br></div><div><b>Goodbye to Golden Rice? GM Trait Leads to Drastic Yield Loss and "Metabolic Meltdown"</b></div><div>by Allison Wilson, PhD</div><div><a href="https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/goodbye-golden-rice-gm-trait-leads-to-drastic-yield-loss/" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr>independentsciencenews.org/<wbr>health/goodbye-golden-rice-gm-<wbr>trait-leads-to-drastic-yield-<wbr>loss/</a></div><div><br></div><div><i>Synopsis</i>: 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 <i>et al</i>. 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.</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">If you like this article please share and distribute widely.</p>

</div>Yours sincerely<div><br></div><div>Jonathan</div><div><br><div>
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