Genetically modified crops pop up in the wild

Friday, August 13, 2010 - 17:21 in Mathematics & Economics

The discovery of canola in North Dakota raises concern that engineered plants could take over native species and cause hardy superweeds to develop. Genetic engineering has been hailed as a tool to produce crops that are left unharmed by weed-killing pesticides and that are more productive than their forebears. But critics have worried that modified plants might take over land used by native...

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