What do radiation, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and genetically modified organisms have to do with your food? A great deal actually, as I'm learning at the IAEA's current International Symposium on Induced Mutations in Plants. If you are interested in malnutrition in developing countries, Golden Rice, how plant breeders have produced a sizable fraction of the food you eat, and what this all has to do with the IAEA and radiation, please join me below the fold as I report on some of the astounding things I've learned from this meeting.
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