so-called terminator gene
- To: propagation@mallorn.com
- Subject: so-called terminator gene
- From: D* M*
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 08:11:42 -0700 (PDT)
--- "McAlpine, Duncan G"
<Duncan.McAlpine@PSS.Boeing.com> wrote:
> From: "McAlpine, Duncan G"
> <Duncan.McAlpine@PSS.Boeing.com>
> To: "'propagation@mallorn.com'"
> <propagation@mallorn.com>
> Subject: so-called terminator gene
> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 06:45:41 -0700
> Reply-to: propagation@mallorn.com
>
> * Monsanto Co. announced last week that it does not
> plan to market
> genetically engineered seed with the so-called
> terminator gene.
> Chairman and CEO Robert Shapiro said the company
> won't develop
> the terminator technology, which prevents
> genetically modified plants
> from producing fertile seed. Plants produced with
> the terminator gene
> would require growers to buy more seed rather than
> using seed from
> the previous year's crop. Farmers were also
> concerned that the pollen
> from these crops could render plants sterile in
> neighboring fields.
> http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto/gurt/default.htm
>
>
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