Date published: 2009/06/30
The BBC says:
Britain's biotechnology research council the BBSRC will this week open a research centre to decode the DNA of plants and animals used in agriculture.
Among its aims is to help farmers boost food production.
Research will focus on economically and socially important plants such as wheat and ryegrass.
It's also hoped that the work will lead to breeding of livestock better able to resist emerging diseases, such as Bluetongue.
Scientists at The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) also hope to help develop crops with increased tolerance to drought and new antibiotics to fight 'superbugs'.
This reads just like a press release, and that is unfortunate, because this is a welcome development. The BBC, along with most of the rest of the academic middle class (led by the so-called environmentalists), have tried to do everything in their power the last decade to lower food production. In particular they have demonised GM food technology (helped along by some ridiculous posturing by Monsanto). Unbelievably the BBC does not mention GM at all in this article (yet again showing it must be a press release). Do they have a clue what all this "genome analysis" is for?
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