GMO golden rice trials: stunted, abnormal plants, reduced grain yield

The Ecologist
Mar 1, 2017, 8:02 am157 pts
The troubled project to develop GMO 'golden rice' cultivars has just hit a serious obstacle. An attempt to breed the 'event' responsible for carotenoid production into a commercial rice variety has produced widespread genomic instability, causing weak plants and poor grain production. Has the golden rice hype…

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