As Kenya’s crops fail, a fight over GMO rages

Re:As Kenya’s crops fail, a fight over GMO rages by derekp7 on Sunday March 05, 2023 @10:37AM (#35030504)

Well, there is drought resistant crops. Yes, it is true the crops can't grow without any water at all, but often times drought means less water, and that causes the crops to become more susceptible to disease. So that is one way of making a crop drought resistant, is to make it disease resistant.

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Re:As Kenya’s crops fail, a fight over GMO rages by hajile on Sunday March 05, 2023 @10:46AM (#35030594)

Drought resistant not a silver bullet. It can help, but only up to a point (and that point seems lower than the sales guys and sponsored studies under optimal conditions might indicate).

Edited because part of this wasn’t factually correct.

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Re:As Kenya’s crops fail, a fight over GMO rages by Godel_unicode on Sunday March 05, 2023 @10:54AM (#35030670)

> These are plants that have had genes from another organism inserted into their DNA to give them a new trait, such as disease or drought resistance

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