How is it possible for the DNA of corn plant to "spread" to the dna of a
weed?

Now what I might buy is that weeds could be restitant to roundup - in
somewhat the same way bugs become resitant to pesticides

But if the plant resistance was true - then we (the average homeowner) would
also have resistant plants as well on our properties just not the farmers.

tomatolord


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rg...
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:37:54 -0400 in
tomatolord
wrote:

Just buy your seed each year and you wont have the problem!

For the herbicide X ready crops, it's been noted that the herbicide
resistance genes spread over to the weeds entirely too easily and
that by rotating which herbicide resistance crop it is, you get weeds
resistant to all herbicides.

However, that's a non-issue for organic as they just do mechanical
weeding anyways.


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Chris Dukes
Suspicion breeds confidence -- Brazil