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  • From: Etienne Goyer <etienne.goyer AT outlands.ca>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn
  • Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:21:51 -0400

On 11-09-20 10:27 AM, Road's End Farm wrote:
> If the pesticide is applied by making living plants produce it, and the
> plants are capable of transferring the trait to later generations and/or
> related plants, it's likely to be impossible to stop adding additional
> applications.

And then the pest develop resistance, and this gene become useless.
See: Roundup-resistant weed, Bt-resistant worm. And you need to start
all over again. Wee!




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