Friday, 21 August 2015 09:00

Green dilemma

Written by Rural News Group

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This old mutt notes that scientists have now developed a genetically engineered rice crop that could emit much less methane than normal rice.

According to Nature Magazine, three years of field trials in China have shown that the cultivation of SUSIBA2 rice (GE) has seen a significant reduction in methane emissions and a decrease in rhizospheric methanogen levels. The magazine reports the GE rice offers a sustainable means of providing increased starch content for food production while reducing greenhouse gas emissions from rice cultivation. So the Hound wonders if the Greens truly believe their own rhetoric about greenhouse gas emissions surely this means they will drop their opposition to genetically modified crops and welcome this GE rice.

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