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[Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net>]

On Feb 15, 2012, at 8:25 AM, alden@waldenwinds.com wrote:

> N koreans beat all US corn researchers
> http://researchumn.com/2010/05/24/second-nature-high-oil-corn/
> by 2x more than US and other countries could manage
> Korean corn 20% oil, most we could make was 10%
> so the "backwards" nation is twice as good as us - at least at  
> breeding
> corn
>
> Charlie, in Massachusetts
> __________________


Well, it's twice as high in oil. I didn't see anything about protein,  
or about other nutrient content.

It may well be twice as good for making biodiesel; but it may be worse  
for any other purpose. There are usually tradeoffs in breeding for one  
trait.


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale