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minus-squareThe_v@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·2 days agoThat’s exactly why the original terminator gene was a joint USDA-ARS /delta-pine effort. The USDA-ARS was looking for ways to prevent GMO species from escaping and causing issues. You know the shit that actually happened. For example - Creeping Bentgrass https://www.opb.org/news/article/gmo-grass-oregon-creeping-bent-scotts-monsanto/ Wheat - https://www.nature.com/articles/499262a Corn/teosinte https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167880918301075
minus-squareGlitterbomb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoThis sounds like the back of a Crichton novel, and I want to read it
That’s exactly why the original terminator gene was a joint USDA-ARS /delta-pine effort. The USDA-ARS was looking for ways to prevent GMO species from escaping and causing issues.
You know the shit that actually happened. For example -
Creeping Bentgrass
https://www.opb.org/news/article/gmo-grass-oregon-creeping-bent-scotts-monsanto/
Wheat -
https://www.nature.com/articles/499262a
Corn/teosinte
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167880918301075
This sounds like the back of a Crichton novel, and I want to read it