Sentences with phrase «daffodil genes»
«Surely, if reasonable people saw the choice between the risk of a daffodil gene in a rice plant and the certainty of millions of blind children, they would descend on Greenpeace offices around the world and demand to have their money back,» he wrote.
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The breakthrough was achieved by replacing a gene originally borrowed from daffodils, and which also has a counterpart from maize.
Seven years later, they found three genes — one from a bacterium and two from a daffodil — that programmed the plant to produce beta - carotene, a precursor of vitamin A.
The genes for b - carotene are clearly not the ones that generate any poison from daffodils.
Daffodils are poisonous, so why use genes from daffodil when there are so many edible sources of carotene producing genes?
Daffodils may well be poisonous, (I never tried them), but genes are not.