World Community Grid and IBM Tackle Rice Crisis

World Community Grid & IBM Tackle Rice Crisis

As concerns of a global hunger crises mount, IBM and researchers at the University of Washington today launched a new program to develop stronger strains of rice that could produce crops with larger and more nutritious yields. Anyone with a computer and the Internet can help by joining World Community Grid at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org

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Gourdet - GMO ?

|Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:13:37 +0000

Hye !

Thanks to present the huge power of World Community Grid.

According this
video, there is no information about the biologic application of the rice
researchs. This lake of information increase the doubt to make grow directly the
best rice species unless searching the compatibility of the grains in natural
environment.
Will the searched rice be a Geneticly Modified Organism ? I think
The answer of GMO question must be published compare to the introduction of such
rice grain in yield and potential fecondation with some other natural rice
species.
Is the consequence of such rice hybrid included in scientist work ?
Thanks for your future answer.

Ecosmose.