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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 12:02 PM
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GM plants 'established in the wild' (BBC)
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News

Researchers in the US have found new evidence that genetically modified crop plants can survive and thrive in the wild, possibly for decades.

A University of Arkansas team surveyed countryside in North Dakota for canola. Transgenes were present in 80% of the wild canola plants they found.

They suggest GM traits may help the plants survive weedkillers in the wild.

The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Pittsburgh.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10859264




No one could have predicted ... :banghead:
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 12:08 PM
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1. Recommend being very angry. Nt
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 12:25 PM
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2. Wonderful
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nykym Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 12:59 PM
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3. You reap what you sow!
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Nihil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-10 06:27 AM
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4. Looks like the usual team of Monsanto defenders missed this one ...
... so let's kick it up again to hear their justification for
cavalierly spreading GM crops around the world (along with their
usual calls of "Luddites!", etc. for anyone who opposed them) ...

:evilgrin:
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