{"id":5981,"date":"2020-09-26T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=5981"},"modified":"2020-09-26T13:56:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T17:56:01","slug":"like-gmos-minus-the-baggage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2020\/09\/26\/like-gmos-minus-the-baggage\/","title":{"rendered":"Like GMOs, Minus the Baggage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Almost 60 years ago I stood beneath a blazing Louisiana sun, up to my knees weeding in the tepid, mosquito-infested water of my father\u2019s rice field. It was the 1950s, and I was nine years old. I eventually got off\u00a0that farm, but the experience made me devote myself to developing technology to make agriculture more productive and its practice less physically demanding.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Killmer talks about the benefits of sprayed-on RNA to alter crops without permanent genetic modification. Currently the technology is too expensive to be viable. This could be a great opportunity for organic growers to use genetic modification selectively depending on the needs of their specific environment or growing season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>This piece highlights potential for new growing techniques and hits on an opportunity for farmers to reintroduce being genetically creative into their practices again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Almost 60 years ago I stood beneath a blazing Louisiana sun, up to my knees weeding in the tepid, mosquito-infested water of my father\u2019s rice field. It was the 1950s, and I was nine years old. I eventually got off\u00a0that farm, but the experience made me devote myself to developing technology to make agriculture more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-focus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5982,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions\/5982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}