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Transgenic Crops: Herbicide Resistance Weeds are a major problem for farmers and have been since the dawn of agriculture 10,000 years ago. The earliest farmers weeded their crops by hand, a laborious and time consuming activity. Subsistence farmers in some less developed countries still farm this way, with their children often missing school to helpRead More
Cis-genic vs Trans-genic – What’s the difference and why you should know about it… In a previous blog “GM is not new: Frankenplants and Frankenfoods”, I discussed how crop plants have been changed by either selecting plants that have been changed by natural mutations or by enhanced mutations using ionizing radiation or mutagens. This hasRead More