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Would you buy these transgenic plants?
"JS" wrote in message om... Wasn't the cherry variety Compact Stella obtained by irradiating scions of the variety Stella? I suppose that because this used the genectic modification techniques of thirty years ago, it's OK. Certainly I've never heard of people destroying orchards containing this variety. I think there is a difference here. Inducing genetic mutations by irradiation is mimicking the natural process of random mutation/evolution - many natural mutations are formed by natural background irradiation. Transgenic plants are different beasts (to coin a phrase!) in that genes from one species are spliced into the DNA of white different species. There are more fundamental issues involved. pk |
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