Why did scientists turn to genetic engineering for rice to create resistance to blight?
a. The bacteria causing blight cannot be identified.
b. Efforts to cross-breed crop rice with blight-resistant rice produced rice unsuitable as a food
source.
c. It is the cheapest and easiest way to produce blight-resistant rice.
d. Almost of the crop rice planted is lost each year to blight.
e. It provided the funding necessary to sequence the rice genome.
B
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