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Billy writes:
5) By larger crops, I meant higher yield (weight) per unit of surface
area.
Higher yield used to be touted as a reason for GMOs, but GMOs don't bear
more that non-GMOs.
...

Ah, misunderstanding. If you mean GMOs don't produce larger crops
now, I have no reason to disagree.

I think GMOs have very good potential as a means to improve yield
and a lot of other desirable characteristics of plants.
And you think that, because . . . ?

Well, because Jimmy Carter said so.

(Just kidding. Bet some of you at least giggled.)

That was my first Google hit.

Here is Wikipedia on the subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic...od#Crop_yields

Which cites some instances of increased yield.

But I made my statement based on my own knowledge of the subject
of selection. Some things grow bigger or faster than other things.
It's known that growth size and rate are genetically
controlled. It makes sense that those genes can be transferred from one
organism to another. If other traits can be transferred, why not
traits that affect yield.