Five Things Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About Agriculture

Re:Five Things Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About Agriculture by dragonwriter on Sunday January 01, 2023 @06:07PM (#34212082)

> I am not aware of any transgenic methods to increase yield as that is done through breeding and hybridization. Do you know of a specific seed that has enhanced yields through a crisper like process?

Not sure that anything particularly CRISPR-like is involved (there are other transgenic techniques), but:

https://www.science.org/content/article/new-genetically-modi...

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Re:Five Things Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About Agriculture by jcampbell1 on Sunday January 01, 2023 @06:39PM (#34212410)

Thanks for the article and I read the paper. I know people have been working on it for ages, but it is nice to see some promising results.

One huge problem with the article is this line:

> The plants are also 16% to 18% more efficient at using nitrogen

The paper said no such thing. These plants take up more nitrogen and increase yield.

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