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Greed driving plant science
Jim Webster wrote: these shouldn't be problems. If you are dealing with a large acreage of a high value crop grow in isolation then the cost of a dedicated combine and silo is irrelevant. -- Jim Webster Dealing with a highly profitable crop, you have to enter in the realm of greed and human nature. There are no existing regulations that forces farmers or traders to have dedicated combines, silos, barges and ports. There is no wall that can stop pollen to travel and its viability depends on species and climatic conditions. Current isolation guidelines are based on the contamination of the crop you are harvesting, not in the neighbor's crop. After you harvest your isolated crop you generally can and do test for outside germplasm contamination (you grow it and find, test and discard off types) None of this is currently done for the neighbor's crops, crop weeds and downstream irrigation channel's vegetation. There are weeds that can intercross for example with wheat and the seeds can travel in the irrigation water or stay in the ground for years. The story of the diarrhea drug works best when it is in its native form or getting it to the target mid gut without it being broken down by digestive enzymes, sounds research to suit the bottom line of some corporation and is something that can be easily solved by encapsulation of the drug, reformulation or by simply changing the diet of the pigs or the kind of pigs. |
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