Comments on: Reason #4: Michael Pollan http://www.biofortified.org/2009/10/reason-4-michael-pollan/ Stronger plants, stronger science, and stronger communication. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:17:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Greg http://www.biofortified.org/2009/10/reason-4-michael-pollan/#comment-1146 Greg Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:57:17 +0000 http://www.biofortified.org/?p=769#comment-1146 I like this idea of open source GM. Open source software is great but all you need is time and a computer. Now, I have both those things and I am also in Bio-informatics, but I know that it takes alot more resources to get to a useful plant variety out to farmers. There are many hurdles that would need to be over come. I just am not sure how that might happen on a large scale. Particularly it would take money, people and some support from the public. All three of which seem hard to come by these days. I like this idea of open source GM. Open source software is great but all you need is time and a computer. Now, I have both those things and I am also in Bio-informatics, but I know that it takes alot more resources to get to a useful plant variety out to farmers. There are many hurdles that would need to be over come. I just am not sure how that might happen on a large scale.

Particularly it would take money, people and some support from the public. All three of which seem hard to come by these days.

]]> By: Pam Ronald http://www.biofortified.org/2009/10/reason-4-michael-pollan/#comment-1143 Pam Ronald Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:10:14 +0000 http://www.biofortified.org/?p=769#comment-1143 great post Karl. I had not read his article about golden rice. great post Karl. I had not read his article about golden rice.

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