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<blockquote data-quote="hanadr" data-source="post: 322479" data-attributes="member: 8110"><p>The differences between modern wheats and their ancestors are mainly down to selective breeding. NOT GM. Modern wheat has a much higher starch content than it's ancestors. It doesn't have "additives". Any of those are put in by processing. The differences caused by selective breeding over many generations can be seen easily in animals. Look at a Mastiff and a Chihuahua. they are the SAME species. their biochemistry is pretty much the same. Thus ancestral wheats and Modern ones have the same chemistry, but different outcomes. Many years ago, I worked on barley crops in East Anglia. Developing feed grain and malting barley. I clearly remember one summer with a batch of schoolkids to help me, sampling barley and measuring the length of the straw. It was around 75cm long. Look at barley this year and it' nowhere near as tall. None of this is GM it's all just selection. All the genes in that barley were always there. The short straw barley was selected for growing, because it's less susceptible to damage by the weather.</p><p> If they do get pea style root nodules to develop on wheat, and the nitrogen fixing bacteria to settle there, It will increase yields without need for more fertiliser. Not a bad thing. It won't probably affect the structure of the starches.</p><p> I must admit, that when I was involved, they simply undersowed the wheat crop with clover[ which also has root nodules with nitrogen fixing bacteria. and of course it all began with crop rotation, when peas or beans were sown one year in 3 to restore the fertility of the soil.</p><p> Not all scientific advances are harmful</p><p> Hana</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hanadr, post: 322479, member: 8110"] The differences between modern wheats and their ancestors are mainly down to selective breeding. NOT GM. Modern wheat has a much higher starch content than it's ancestors. It doesn't have "additives". Any of those are put in by processing. The differences caused by selective breeding over many generations can be seen easily in animals. Look at a Mastiff and a Chihuahua. they are the SAME species. their biochemistry is pretty much the same. Thus ancestral wheats and Modern ones have the same chemistry, but different outcomes. Many years ago, I worked on barley crops in East Anglia. Developing feed grain and malting barley. I clearly remember one summer with a batch of schoolkids to help me, sampling barley and measuring the length of the straw. It was around 75cm long. Look at barley this year and it' nowhere near as tall. None of this is GM it's all just selection. All the genes in that barley were always there. The short straw barley was selected for growing, because it's less susceptible to damage by the weather. If they do get pea style root nodules to develop on wheat, and the nitrogen fixing bacteria to settle there, It will increase yields without need for more fertiliser. Not a bad thing. It won't probably affect the structure of the starches. I must admit, that when I was involved, they simply undersowed the wheat crop with clover[ which also has root nodules with nitrogen fixing bacteria. and of course it all began with crop rotation, when peas or beans were sown one year in 3 to restore the fertility of the soil. Not all scientific advances are harmful Hana [/QUOTE]
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