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Amphibian Articles - Species Mixing: New World Syndrome
However, because these pathogens vary greatly from one location to another, the natural resistances developed by any particular ... resistances to different pathogens than a species from another environment, such as the Chinese Fire Belly newt, C. orientalis. A species will still carry the pathogens for which it has natural resistances ...
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(Brush, 1991). Many of these wild and weedy varieties have disease and pest resistances which have been used in the development of modern crop varieties. Landraces of ... stored, the genetic integrity of these resources can be compromised through natural hybridization and genetic drift. Additionally, the natural evolutionary breeding processes, which occur continuously on the farm and ...
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Genetically Engineered Crops - A Threat to Soil Fertility?
These were all accomplished using ... rich media are necessary to support horizontal gene transfer. Horizontal gene transfer of antibiotic resistances has even been demonstrated in wastewater treatment ponds, the effluent from which is ...
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Edmonds Institute Occasional Paper
On the plant side, unknown side effects of the novel breeding system, possible contamination of natural and agricultural plant populations and the non-democratic imposition of a major change in ... there is a major, and justified, fear about the potential lack of durability of crop resistances developed through genetic engineering. This is principally because of the two reasons noted above with ...
www.edmonds-institute.org
Stop GM Soya 356043!
Stop GM Soya 356043! Engineered with novel procedures and constructs for multiple resistances to toxic herbicides Now seeking non-regulated status from obliging regulators. Prof. Joe ... genes for enzymes, regulatory proteins or antibodies with laboratory performance far superior to the natural proteins obtained from living organisms. Unfortunately, the technique is inherently dangerous, as it ...
www.i-sis.org.uk
GM Trees Lost in China’s Forests
Instead of going through the more labourious process of traditional breeding for disease and pest resistances, these quick fix, single-gene technologies are really attractive, in the same way they ... between the two government departments as genes from GM poplars have transferred to nearby natural trees. Transgenic poplars cross with native species Professor Steve Strauss leads a scientific research ...
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