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iNstein t1_iz8wm3k wrote

But does it taste as good and is it as nutritious as other wheat? Usually you get a trade off, maybe more susceptible to disease or insects?

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justabill71 t1_iz8ya0n wrote

I guess we'll just have to wheat and see.

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thisimpetus t1_iz90gc3 wrote

If you'd read the article you'd know it tastes great.

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iNstein t1_iz92dzb wrote

If it waa tested by the developers or people paid by them, I'd expect to hear that no matter how disgusting it tastes.

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thisimpetus t1_iz92j3z wrote

lmao it was tested by farmers, just stahp, read the damn thing before you opine

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iNstein t1_iz9b0em wrote

Mate, this is Reddit lol. Farmers have a vested interest too. A double blind taste testing would be convincing.

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tsadecoy t1_iz9g6yv wrote

But it's not necessary at all. Farmers also want to be able to sell the wheat. The wholesalers will definitely not buy anything they think tastes bad or will pay significantly less for it.

This is a self correcting issue if it exists frankly. They are making some test fields in Morocco so we will just have to wait and see.

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thisimpetus t1_iz9isgl wrote

What has that got to do with the current conversation?

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AgnosticStopSign t1_izacgkn wrote

Tradeoffs arent a thing. You can simply just enhance with genetic expression.

Everything wants to survive, so plants would naturally start selecting these traits regardless over generations of descendants in heat and drought.

Lastly, look at humans - theres normal supertasters, theres normal people with cerebral palsy. Even normal RNG genetic expression changes that are either negative or positive dont have contrarian trade offs

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tonymmorley OP t1_iz8vzrw wrote

Jabal: the new wheat scientists say can withstand extreme heat and drought — "The variety is a cross between commercial and wild wheats – bred in a bid to develop crops that are more resilient to the climate crisis" 🍞

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"A new drought-tolerant variety of durum wheat has been created as part of an international breeding programme to boost climate resilience in the food system by increasing crop diversity."
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"While it is not yet commercially available, farmers in Morocco will be the first to start growing the new version of durum wheat, which is widely eaten in north Africa and the Middle East, in about three years. Morocco is suffering its worst drought in four decades, and grain production is down by about 70% due to the extremely dry conditions."

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Salt-Artichoke5347 t1_iz9ff4r wrote

just imagine a nuclear power desalinization plants on the med being used to make that drought not a problem

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Querch t1_iz9tgd3 wrote

Desal water remains expensive, though. It's ultimately better to not have to desalinate seawater to farm crops. If fresh water is that scarce, why not use treated wastewater?

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ThePottyMouth t1_izaqatw wrote

I work as an Operator at a wastewater treatment plant. There is no true way to remove heavy dissolved metals like mercury or prescription drugs from wastewater to a safe consumable level; they just go through the process and out into the receiving body of water really. This is the problem with that.

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Salt-Artichoke5347 t1_izcg9yt wrote

it remains expensive due to its energy needs period reduce the costs of the energy needs and well it becomes far less costly. Just like building one in California so they can do it to the ocean water there is better then importing water from eastern states and would help refill the aquifers of all the states. Also israel uses a lot of water from desalinization so it is feasible and useable

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phine-phurniture t1_izagllp wrote

Is it an open gene strain or is it a property crop of Monsanto?

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XxDoXeDxX t1_iz91fk7 wrote

be wary of tribbles, they love to eat hotrotriticale.

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FuturologyBot t1_iz8y7qo wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/tonymmorley:

Jabal: the new wheat scientists say can withstand extreme heat and drought — "The variety is a cross between commercial and wild wheats – bred in a bid to develop crops that are more resilient to the climate crisis" 🍞

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"A new drought-tolerant variety of durum wheat has been created as part of an international breeding programme to boost climate resilience in the food system by increasing crop diversity."
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"While it is not yet commercially available, farmers in Morocco will be the first to start growing the new version of durum wheat, which is widely eaten in north Africa and the Middle East, in about three years. Morocco is suffering its worst drought in four decades, and grain production is down by about 70% due to the extremely dry conditions."

Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/zewybj/jabal_the_new_wheat_scientists_say_can_withstand/iz8vzrw/

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Jaded-333 t1_izbaqlq wrote

Every year we edge closer and closer to Syfy dystopia.

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lacergunn t1_iz9tcsg wrote

I had an idea a few months back to genetically modify plants using genes from the tardigrade (a long lived, dehydration and radiation resistant micro-insect) to make them dehydration resistant. This seems to be regular old crossbreeding

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JellyKeyboard t1_iz9gu3p wrote

It’s a bit depressing to think our solution to global warming is mutant crops that can put up with our shit a little while longer tbh

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Otterkuh t1_iz9enet wrote

It gives you cancer as well, but hey, hunger is the problem no 1 right now :)

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