Reducing Rice’s Carbon Footprint

Re:Reducing Rice’s Carbon Footprint by selimthegrim on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @11:01AM (#20507255)

I wish they’d work on the arsenic problem Arkansas rice has too

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Re:Reducing Rice’s Carbon Footprint by ryanmercer on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @11:03AM (#20507270)

That's more a soil contamination problem than a rice problem.

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Re:Reducing Rice’s Carbon Footprint by coryrc on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @12:41PM (#20508083)

Rice does absorb much more arsenic from the environment than other crops, so maybe it could be engineered to do that less. In the meantime, we should have stricter standards on arsenic content.

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Re:Reducing Rice’s Carbon Footprint by ryanmercer on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @12:47PM (#20508129)

I imagine engineering it to absorb less of a given substance would almost certainly cause it to absorb less of things it needs as well.

Besides, if editing plants were that easy, we'd have C4 rice already.

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Re:Reducing Rice’s Carbon Footprint by selimthegrim on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @10:43AM (#20515771)

I don't know if C4 rice would help with this but there's another carbon related rice problem on the horizon

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/23/agriculture-depart...

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