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Self-destruction genes could keep GMOs from spilling into the wild

2015-01-23 19:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Desk: It`s the worst nightmare of activists opposed to genetically modified crops: An errant GMO seed blows out of a wheat or corn field and breeds with a species in the wild or on a neighboring farm. The modified gene proliferates and spreads through the population, and pretty soon the line between engineered crops and their "natural" counterparts begins to disappear, with unpredictable consequences for ecosystems. This happened in 2010 in North Dakota, when scientists discovered that genes from genetically...

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