Thread: UGA researchers use transgenic trees to help clean up toxic waste site
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Old 18-09-2003, 06:32 AM
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Default UGA researchers use transgenic trees to help clean up toxic waste site
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On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:13:28 +0100, Oz
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Do you ever give anything more than a moments thought?

Why are you defending GM "technology" yet again?

Don't you think that it is a good thing to detoxify slightly
contaminated sites?

Don't you see that allowing plants to "respire" mercury into the
environment might be a bad thing?

That depends on how much and how long and whether it has an impact or
not. I rather doubt the concentrations will be high, and may in fact not
be detectable in the wild. In any case I wouldn't be at all surprised if
some existing plants living on Hg contaminated soils do it already.

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Oz
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