"You have to help me make the men eat it."
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4348328.html
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4348328.html
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Originally Posted by Houston Chronicle
WASHINGTON — Cotton, for thousands of years one of the most important crops for clothing and shelter, might also become a source of food.
A chemical called gossypol makes cottonseed inedible for humans, though some of it is used in feed for cattle, which are less affected by the toxin. Now, researchers at Texas A&M University have genetically modified cotton to produce seeds with little or no gossypol. It's a step they say could help provide valuable protein to millions of people. Their findings are reported in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. |
