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Those two aren't 'transgenic' in the sense meant here (which is synonymous with 'genetically modified' not just 'hybrid'). But of course there are plenty of GM/
by blacksmith_tb 5y ago
Those two aren't 'transgenic' in the sense meant here (which is synonymous with 'genetically modified' not just 'hybrid'). But of course there are plenty of GM/GE plants that already escape from one field to another[1]. Animals are more novel, partly because we haven't been engineering them for as long.
1: https://www.nature.com/articles/news.2010.393 https://www.nature.com/articles/news.2010.393
- giantg2 5y agoGood catch. Yeah, the bees were not GM. I think I must have confused that with the GM bee experiments in Germany. But this bent grass was what I was talking about for the other part. https://cen.acs.org/articles/82/i39/GENE-FLOW-TRANSGENIC-GRASS.html https://cen.acs.org/articles/82/i39/GENE-FLOW-TRANSGENIC-GRA...