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Old 01-01-2006   #1 (permalink)
Crabbyappleton
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Genetically altered crop crosses with weed to create "super weed"

Man, this genetic altering of the food chain is upsetting me! We just don't know what we are doing.

Modified genes from crops in a GM crop trial have transferred into local wild plants, creating a form of herbicide-resistant "super weed", the Guardian can reveal.
The cross-fertilisation between GM oilseed rape, a brassica, and a distantly related plant, charlock, had been discounted as virtually impossible by scientists with the environment department. It was found during a follow up to the government's three-year trials of GM crops which ended two years ago.

The new form of charlock was growing among many others in a field which had been used to grow GM rape. When scientists treated it with lethal herbicide it showed no ill-effects.


In case you don't now, I am pretty sure that rape seed is the real name that marketing does not like to use for the seed used in the production of canola oil.
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