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echo: barktopus
to: Robert Bononno
from: Adam Flinton
date: 2003-06-19 08:09:32
subject: Re: More on GM escapees

From: Adam Flinton 

I'm not.....it's trying to copy control stuff which is alive & thus
wants to copy itself....


Adam

Robert Bononno wrote:
> Is anyone surprised by this?
>
>
> In article ,
>  Adam Flinton  wrote:
>
>
>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2998000.stm
>>
>>" Seeds may be a bigger danger than pollen in allowing GM crops to
>>escape into the countryside.
>>
>>Seeds can be carried long distances on farm machinery to cross with wild
>>relatives, a French study has found.
>>
>>  Genes from commercial sugar beet turned up in wild plants growing more
>>than 1.5 kilometres away, according to scientists at Lille University.
>>
>>It suggests GM crops are likely to jump the confines of any buffer zone
>>imposed.
>>
>>"If GM sugar beets are established in regions where populations of the
>>wild form also occur, then gene flow between wild and cultivated
>>relatives is almost inevitable," says lead author Dr Jean-Francois
>>Arnaud. ""
>>
>>
>>Adam
>>
>
>

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