Rice breeding breakthrough could feed billions

[edwest4]

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-rice-breakthrough-billions.html

 

[publiusr]

Clone huh? The words "monoculture" and "potato famine" come to mind.

 

[riggerrob]

Monoculture is a scary concept!

In a related crop, the Canadian dairy cattle industry relies upon a mere 30 bulls to provide all of the sperm for artificial insemination. That is a TINY gene pool!
AI being the dominant method for impregnating dairy cattle in Canada.

 

[edwest4]

Here are the technical details.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35679-3