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To: TobagoJack who wrote (136096)	10/16/2017 3:02:37 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218068

But the biggest challenge to the seawater rice project was that China now has a surplus of rice. — “China is not in food shortage any more,” he said. . . . This chart explains why. — President Xi is clearly in firm control of Chinese government propaganda.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (136096)	10/17/2017 8:16:38 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 218068

>> China pioneers rice grown in seawater, aims to boost harvest by 20 per cent << Our Chinese working on that stuff too... ;) RNA discovery could help boost plant heat, drought tolerance September 18, 2017 Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists have discovered a ribonucleic acid, or RNA, that can increase the thale cress plant's resistance to stress from drought and salt. The discovery could help illuminate a new pathway to engineering drought- and salt-tolerant plants, including food crops, said Dr. Liming Xiong, AgriLife Research associate professor, Dallas. "This is the first finding of a long non-coding RNA, or lncRNA, that regulates plant tolerance to adverse, non-physiological external factors," Xiong said. The lncRNA his team discovered in thale cress plants existed in low numbers under non-stress conditions, but levels increased when the plants encountered drought or salt stress, he said. Manually increasing the level of the lncRNA showed corresponding increases in drought and salt tolerance compared with plants where the lncRNA level was unaltered. More: sciencedaily.com