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> Quinoa is a plant that produces a tremendous amount of seed. So you have potential, with intensive selection, to identify variants that have unusual characteristics.

Will it still be as nutritious after all that selection though? There was an article pointing out that when farmers select for bigger, shinier, more marketable fruit, it's often at the cost of actual nutritional value:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/opinion/sunday/breeding-th...

parent klipt 13 years ago

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