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Can gamma rays used for crop improvement programmes prove to be harmful for health ? Discuss.

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No Radiation treatment has been used to create thousands of new plant varieties , these varieties are cutivated as food and feed Radiation is known to be much more disruptive for chromosomal structure than manpulations used to make transgenic plants.
Such radiation treatment of crop plants has caused no docomented instances of ill- health among consumers despite having been used commercially for several decadeas ,
for rice crops alone hundreds of different mutant verietices have been divelopad mostly made by using ionisiing rasiations , like gamma rays.
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