Can Crops’ Wild Relatives Save Troubled Agriculture?

Re:Can Crops’ Wild Relatives Save Troubled Agriculture? by ropiwqefjnpoa on Thursday December 12, 2019 @05:05PM (#21777054)

Great, more crossing-breeding with untested species we aren't used to ingesting. I wonder what weird and wonderful food allergies we'll be able to enjoy now?

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Re:Can Crops’ Wild Relatives Save Troubled Agriculture? by infecto on Thursday December 12, 2019 @05:21PM (#21777197)

Is there any evidence that this has created food allergies?

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Re:Can Crops’ Wild Relatives Save Troubled Agriculture? by ropiwqefjnpoa on Thursday December 12, 2019 @05:31PM (#21777275)

Gluten sensitivity comes to mind: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3573730/

The study finds that gluten consumption hasn't increased over the past few decades and that a culprit is more likely "wheat genetics"

Anecdotally, I don't know if you know many genuinely GF people, but the ones I know have all said that they can eat bread while in European countries, but have bad reactions back home.

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Re:Can Crops’ Wild Relatives Save Troubled Agriculture? by windexh8er on Thursday December 12, 2019 @11:20PM (#21779121)

There are two types of industrialized wheat. Dwarf and semi-dwarf. Compared to ancient wheats like eikorn we're probably now realizing how bad these are impacting health. Diabetes, celiac, etc. There are, at least, studies focusing on it now [0].

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5397290/

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