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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net>
  • To: acarterwriter@tznet.com, nafex mailing list at ibiblio <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Korean corn 20% oil, most we could make was 10%
  • Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:52:18 -0500



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
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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






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