Frank said:
On 8/13/2014 9:14 AM, Terry Coombs wrote:
Knowing that many seeds these days are treated with neonics...

I'd anticipate oxidative and photolytic degradation. Pesticides with
long lives like chlordane have been banned today.

The thing is, the neonicotinoids act systemically and are thus protected
from degredation by being inside plant tissue. They were designed to
be taken up by plants and have a fairly long half-life in soil.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonicotinoid

OTOH, persistence from a few plants grown from treated seeds, especially
in saved seeds through several generations, would not be a problem.

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