David Koberstein
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It affects us only in that almost every high-yielding bread wheat cultivar grown today—whether in North America, Europe, or Asia—carries the Norin 10 dwarfing alleles (Rht-B1b, Rht-D1b). These alleles are now fixed in global wheat breeding because they give consistent lodging resistance and yield stability under fertilizer use.
In other words, your loaf of bread exists because a mutation, originally found in a Japanese landrace, was fixed into Norin 10 through pedigree breeding and spread worldwide. Without those alleles, wheat crops would've been unable to keep pace with demand.
Don't worry, there's nothing to be concerned about. For one thing, irradiated does not mean radioactive. After all, you are being irradiated every single day from solar and cosmic rays, and when getting an X-ray at the dentist office. For another thing, when scientists irradiate seeds to induce a desired mutation, those treated seeds are not used to make your bread. Several generations separate that first crop from the one that made your bread.
I will keep eating Kosher and organic and no GMO'sIt affects us only in that almost every high-yielding bread wheat cultivar grown today—whether in North America, Europe, or Asia—carries the Norin 10 dwarfing alleles (Rht-B1b, Rht-D1b). These alleles are now fixed in global wheat breeding because they give consistent lodging resistance and yield stability under fertilizer use.
In other words, your loaf of bread exists because a mutation, originally found in a Japanese landrace, was fixed into Norin 10 through pedigree breeding and spread worldwide. Without those alleles, wheat crops would've been unable to keep pace with demand.
Don't worry, there's nothing to be concerned about. For one thing, irradiated does not mean radioactive. After all, you are being irradiated every single day from solar and cosmic rays, and when getting an X-ray at the dentist office. For another thing, when scientists irradiate seeds to induce a desired mutation, those treated seeds are not used to make your bread. Several generations separate that first crop from the one that made your bread.
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