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On the environmental impact of altered pesticide use on transgenic crops.(The Project Place)
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Chemistry International
- Article date:
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March 1, 2008
- Author:
- Kleter, Gijs A.
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Modern biotechnology has enabled the introduction of "foreign" genes into crop plants, leading to the creation of "transgenic" plants and providing a new method for conveying properties of interest to plants. Since the first large-scale introduction of transgenic crops a little more than 10 years ago, the area planted with these crops has been steadily growing, reaching 102 million hectares in 2006. Most of these plants are crops of high economic value and carry either one or both of two traits: herbicide resistance and insect resistance. Popular examples of these transgenic crops are glyphosate (herbicide)-resistant soy and corn borer (insect)-resistant maize.
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