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... to meet the food security needs of poor farmers, and two traits (herbicide tolerance and insect resistance) of limited relevance; herbicide resistance, in particular, is less relevant for developing countries where farm labour ...
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Traits introduced into crops by genetic engineering (GE).
A brief overview Trait Percentage of all GE-food products: Herbicide tolerance about 40% Virus resistance about 15 % Improved technical quality about 15 % Increased disease ... use of herbicide resistant products represents more than 50 percent of the GE crops today. Explanation: 1. Herbicide tolerance The idea is to make the plant resistant to some powerful herbicide that ...
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ECNT » Media Releases » Land Clearing » 2005 Pipeline fiasco highlights need for better government and industry planning
Australia, which have the potential to become major weed problems if they acquire herbicide tolerance from the GM varieties, adds to the risk. Environs Kimberley Coordinator Maria Mann said: ... Larissa Cordner said studies show there are many problems associated with GM crops including herbicide resistant weeds and increased use of chemicals; toxicity to wildlife and humans; genetic pollution ...
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GeneWatch UK - Techniques for Genetically Modifying Plants - A basic guide on how plants are genetically modified.
Marker genes include antibiotic resistance, herbicide tolerance and fluorescence. There may also be remnants of the vector DNA (see below) also inserted ...
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GeneWatch UK - Worldwide Commercial Growing - Where GM crops are grown around the world
Bt genes. The herbicide tolerance and insect resistance traits have also both been included in some varieties of cotton and maize which is known as gene 'stacking'. Herbicide tolerance made ...
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Our government's science advisors have betrayed public trust, and have been caught playing fast ...
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GM Rice in India
A stacked combination of Bt toxins Cry1Ab and Cry1Ac along with tolerance to the herbicide glufosinate (bar gene) was created in order to serve as a parental line ... herbicide tolerance as a selectable marker driven by a CaMV promoter and terminated with tnos. The transgenic crop showed greater growth than the non-transgenic line under drought conditions [12]. Heat tolerance ...
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Environmental Commons: Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
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Environmental Commons: GMO Factsheet
This provides herbicide-tolerance and/or insect resistance to existing domesticated plant varieties. In many cases, biotechnology breaks ... Beets, Canola, and Potatoes are the predominant crop plants being engineered. From 1996-2001 herbicide-tolerant plants (allowing them to withstand the overspray of herbicides) accounted for 77% ...
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