Perennial rice: Plant once, harvest again and again
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#2But what does it taste like?
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#3> They then spent years breeding for the desired traits until they landed on three new perennial varieties to test in the real world
Good old-fashioned genetic engineering :)
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#4But what does it taste like?
"It was incredibly fragrant and super tasty."
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#5The Land Institute has been doing amazing work for decades, and it's great to see they've done it for a common grain.
Their work on Kernza was fascinating but seemed unlikely to catch on.
The question will always come back to yield loss (vs. annual cultivars) vs. cost savings due to perenniality.
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#6But what does it taste like?
probably better than a bug sandwitch
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#8This is really excellent news. Annual plant cultivation at the scale we need is pretty unsustainable long term.
Yes we’ve been doing it for thousands of years but only 100 or so relying on oil for our enormous yields.
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#10This is really excellent news. Annual plant cultivation at the scale we need is pretty unsustainable long term. Yes we’ve been doing it for thousands of years but only 100 or so relying on oil for our enormous yields.
I have one concern though. What happens to nutrients content of this rice over time? I mean with our current practices the land gets enough time to produce quality rice for another year. If we are going perenial what happens to soil and rice quality?