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Roundup Ready Coca

Unread postby mattduke » Sat 14 Mar 2009, 11:16:33

But experts in herbicide resistance suspect that there is another, more intriguing possibility: The coca plant may have been genetically modified in a lab. The technology is fairly trivial. In 1996, Monsanto commercialized its patented Roundup Ready soybean - a genetically modified plant impervious to glyphosate. The innovation ushered in an era of hyperefficient soybean production: Farmers were able to spray entire fields, killing all the weeds and leaving behind a thriving soybean crop. The arrival of Roundup Ready coca would have a similar effect - except that in this case, it would be the US doing the weed killing for the drug lords.


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Re: Roundup Ready Coca

Unread postby Dreamtwister » Mon 16 Mar 2009, 12:56:19

pstarr wrote:Furthermore fancy hypothetical hybrids such as Monsanto's would not breed true and are not equipped to go it alone in the high Andes. They need tender loving care and lots of petroleum and irrigation.


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