"Mooshie peas" wrote in message
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On 22 Aug 2003 23:32:50 GMT, Brian Sandle
posted:

Thomas Mueller wrote:
Excerpt from Brian Sandle :

Recent news has stated how Monsanto are embarassed by this: many GM
crop
fields are now plagued by weeds resistant to Roundup herbicide. That
means
extra doses of Roundup and other herbicides are being applied. Does
any
of it stay in the cotton lint, and on to the spun thread?

If the lint of Bt cotton does not contain Bt I wonder if insects will
adapt to eating mainly the lint, thereby escaping too much toxin. Does
a
wood borer get energy from cellulose?

Heavy use of Roundup for weed control in connection with Roundup-ready
GM crops
whose seeds are produced by Monsanto leads to the weeds evolving
resistance to
Roundup, just as insects have evolved resistance to insecticides.

As well as the fields getting filled with plants like nettles which
already had resistance.

So how were nettles being dealt with in the past?
You seem to want to blame RR crops for the nettle problem.

As Gordon showed us:

http://www.couger.com/farm. He said the weeds are nettles and will
go down with the first dose of Roundup. But I have recently posted
`weeds' thread, that anettles are not so susceptible to Roundup. A
mix with pursuit is needed.

Which nettles, BTW? Nettles are pehaps not as susceptible to Roundup
as other weeds? I don't know, but it seems to me that nettles are
totally irrelevant.

So maybe the Roundup had already applied.

Applied what?

Gordon said the yellow colour of those plants was younger age,
compared to his ones.

Or maybe Or maybe Roundup (glyphosate) causes some yellowing, in
Roundup Ready plants, even if not as much as Zeneca's sulfosinate

http://www.weeds.iastate.edu/weednews/monsantoad.jpg

thanks Torsten.

How come the Zeneca plants are bigger, and the soil is yellower?


Zeneca's plants are soybeans not cotton at a later stage of maturity.

Gordon