Thinking about risk
Articles like below, serve as a timely reminder that risk management is crucial in every domain—not just in financial markets but also in agriculture—yet it remains one of the most commonly overlooked practices.
When the recommended amount of phosphate fertilizer was used, yield increased by 20% in gene edited rice lines. However, when only 10% of the recommended dose of phosphate fertilizer was used, yield in gene-edited rice lines increased by 40% compared with the control, says Dr. Jitender Giri from NIPGR, and the corresponding author of a paper published in Plant Biotechnology Journal.NIPGR’s gene-edited japonica rice shows increased phosphate uptake, 20% more yield“The purpose was to just demonstrate that even under extreme conditions of using only 10% of the recommended dose, the gene-edited lines showed increased phosphate uptake resulting in 40% higher yield compared with the control group, where the yield reduced sharply,” says Dr. Giri. “But if phosphate fertilizer supply is reduced by 10% or even 30%, it is very likely that the gene-edited lines will still outperform the control plants.”