Re: Round up resistant plants

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• To: <g*@hort.net>
• Subject: Re: [CHAT] Round up resistant plants
• From: &* <k*@comcast.net>
• Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:23:12 -0500
• References: <718CDEF4-4DED-11D8-B8DB-000A95B94698@igc.org>

> > ... one could only guess that genetically engineered ornamentals
> > would
> > follow.
Then genetically engineered pets. etc.....
Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Round up resistant plants


> This is potentially scary stuff. I think it out to be a felony to
> create [engineer] a plant unless you also create [engineer] a way to
> kill it. I can see a whole continent covered with creeping bent grass
> and, in the south at least, kudzu.
>
>
>
>
> On Friday, January 23, 2004, at 01:40 PM, TeichFlora@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Article:
> > Are Roundup-ready ornamentals in our future? Cotton and soybean
> > varieties
> > genetically engineered for resistance to glyphosate (Roundup herbicide)
> > have become row-crop industry norms. However, the nursery/landscape
> > industries have been slower to incorporate such technology into turf
> > and
> > ornamentals. This is changing, as Monsanto and Scotts Co. have filed a
> > petition to approve a creeping bentgrass genetically engineered to
> > resist
> > Roundup damage. If this plant is approved, and becomes accepted by the
> > public, one could only guess that genetically engineered ornamentals
> > would
> > follow.
> > http://www.aphis.usda.gov/lpa/news/2004/01/bentgras_brs.html
> >
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