[GHung]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')f Brad Pitt can grow food on Mars in the movies then perhaps we will all eat GMO cactus here on earth after AGW disrupts global agriculture.

I doubt it will happen but it’s not impossible

Cheers!

[Cog]

The lack of understanding and outright panic over GMO's tells me the fear mongers truly have no clue about them.

[GHung]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'T')he lack of understanding and outright panic over GMO's tells me the fear mongers truly have no clue about them.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'I')ndeed, there have even been proposals for adding Cacti genes to food crops to allow them to maintain function in the Tropics as the temperatures creep upward. Given the GMO hysteria that is a hard sell right now, but in the back ground you can presume that all the big GMO developers are playing around with the technology. If they succeed then it drives a pretty big stake in the 'we will all starve' meme you can see so often.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', ' ')there is a world of difference between inserting Cacti genes that use different photosynthesis pathways into traditional crops to make those crops resistant to higher heat levels and engineering a cactus subspecies into an abundant food crop.

Sure some Cacti have tasty bits like the flower buds of the 'Strawberry Cactus', or the fruit of the Prickly Pear, or even the leaves of certain other species. What they all have in common is the genetic blueprint for enzymes that are not broken down by the high desert temperatures which is what kills our traditional crops if they get exposed to too much heat for too long of a period during their growth and reproduction phases.

[GHung]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', ' ')there is a world of difference between inserting Cacti genes that use different photosynthesis pathways into traditional crops to make those crops resistant to higher heat levels and engineering a cactus subspecies into an abundant food crop.

Sure some Cacti have tasty bits like the flower buds of the 'Strawberry Cactus', or the fruit of the Prickly Pear, or even the leaves of certain other species. What they all have in common is the genetic blueprint for enzymes that are not broken down by the high desert temperatures which is what kills our traditional crops if they get exposed to too much heat for too long of a period during their growth and reproduction phases.