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> Weed-killer resistance transfers to a weed, helping boost it to invasive species? Cannot happen. If inter-plant gene transfer was that simple, it would alrea
by minikomi 14y ago
> Weed-killer resistance transfers to a weed, helping boost it to invasive species?
Cannot happen. If inter-plant gene transfer was that simple, it would already be an agricultural practice.
A weed-killer resistant species becoming a weed is something to consider though.
> Some mutation makes crop more vulnerable to a particular plant virus, destroying 80% of that crop in EU or US?
No. A vulnerable crop would not have a chance to become 80% of the crop share before dying out.
- DanBC 14y ago> No. A vulnerable crop would not have a chance to become 80% of the crop share before dying out. 80% is sci-fi hyperbole. But it's easy to see that monoculture could still be as much of a problem with GMO as without it. Dutch Elm disease managed to kill 40% of Elm trees in Europe during the first big outbreak, and at least 66% in the UK during the second outbreak. (Maybe 25 million trees out of maybe 30 million trees in the UK). Irish potato famine was caused by potato blight. About half the world's crop of bananas is destroyed each year because of disease caused by monoculture growing.