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| Authored by: artp on Wednesday, May 15 2013 @ 10:51 PM EDT |
"gene transfer from GM crop to regular hybrides"
Gene transfer to hybrids would not be useful. The resulting
plants would not have the yield or other characteristics of
the parent generation.
Gene transfer to open pollinated plants (e. g. soybeans)
WOULD be very useful, as the resulting generations would be
very close to the parents in yield and other desirable
characteristics. Open pollinated crops are amenable to seed
saving. Hybrids are not.
Hybrids are exclusively proprietary - to my knowledge -
because the corporation controls the parent generations and
protects them vigorously. There is no benefit to an
individual to set aside acreage to raise first and second
generation hybrid precursors so that they can get a higher
yield on the third generation. But with a corporation,
anything that contributes to lock-in is A Good Thing [TM]
(C) [Patent Applied For].
While corn is 99% hybridized, soybeans and canola are mostly
open-pollinated. Since corn is possible the most promiscuous
pollinator in Nature, all three cause massive problems with
other crops.
Corn can pollinate crops 10-20 miles away under the right
(?) conditions.
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