So often I argue with modern science fanatics who consider organized research papers as their only proof of truth! One common thing they all believe is: Genes control life 
Genes are dead books. They have no power to control life’s traits.
Genes are dead books. They have no power to control life’s traits.By fluke, they got high production in lab’s controlled environment and IR8 rice became green revolution hero . Now, 40 years later, IR8 is useless as it cannot give same results with changes in global environment.
. Now, 40 years later, IR8 is useless as it cannot give same results with changes in global environment.Until now scientists have believed that the variations in traits such as our height, skin colour, tendency to gain weight or not, intelligence, tendency to develop certain diseases, etc., all of them traits that exist along a continuum, were a result of both genetic and environmental factors.
βItβs a discovery that completely changes our understanding of how human variation comes to be,β says Abouheif. βSo many human traits, whether they are intelligence, height, or vulnerability to diseases such as cancer, exist along a continuum. If, as we believe, this epigenetic mechanism applies to a key gene in each area, the change is so enormous that itβs hard to even imagine right now how it will influence research in everything from health to cognitive development to farming.β
These scientists don’t understand panchkosh of organisms. They don’t understand energy fields. Pranamaya kosh. So they are still playing around DNA methylation (a biochemical process that controls the expression of certain genes β a bit like a dimmer can turn a light up or down)
Same story goes with green revolution hero (or villain? or joker?) IR8 rice.
Although nothing has changed in the genetic makeup of the IR8 rice plant in the past 50 years, its yields have declined continuously. The researchers working with Bernd MΓΌller-RΓΆber from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology and the University of Potsdam therefore wanted to find out whether this development was possibly linked with the global increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.
Real hero is mother nature. Her various forms (ΰ€Άΰ€ΰ₯ΰ€€ΰ€Ώ) drive the show called life on Earth and anywhere else. Sooner we realize it, better we channelize our innovations and efforts in embracing Maa’s blessings.
http://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/honey-i-shrunk-ants-how-environment-controls-size-243448
http://www.mpg.de/6650626/carbon-dioxide-crop-yields
