Tag: DNA technology

DNA rice breakthrough raises ‘Green Revolution’ hopes

RICE-growing techniques learned through thousands of years of trial and error are about to be turbocharged with DNA technology in a breakthrough hailed by scientists as a potential second “green revolution”. Over the next few years farmers are expected to have new genome sequencing technology at their disposal, helping to offset a myriad of problems that threaten to curtail production of the grain that feeds half of humanity. Drawing on a massive bank of varieties […]