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NORIN 10 IN WHEAT

The wheat gene, Norin 10, for example, helped developing countries like India and
Pakistan increase their wheat harvests by 60 percent. At the Wheat Research Center in
Mexico
City that conducted some of this research on Norin 10, there is an inscription on the
wall when
you enter the building that reads, A single gene has saved one hundred million
lives. From 10 million tons to 70 million tons in four years. Norin 10 dwarfs wheat.
'Norin 10,' a cultivar from Japan, provided two very important genes, Rht1 and Rht2, that
resulted in the reduced height (or dwarf) wheats. Better nutrient uptake and tillerage,
not to mention rocky and less irrigated
American farmers grew seventy million acres of bioengineered crops last year, the bulk of
which comprised corn modified to resist devastating fungus and Roundup Ready soybeans
modified to resist a common herbicide
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