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Traits introduced into crops by genetic engineering (GE).
Monarch Butterfly larvae died from eating pollen from plants having a pesticide gene (the Bacillus Thuringiensis (Bt) toxin gene). This opens the possibility that many other insects of vital importance for the ... in organic farming. When used as a spray there was little resistance problems because the toxin disintegrated rapidly when exposed to the sun. But its permanent presence in the plants has ...
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Plant-Pesticides in GE-food - a potential health risk, by Professor Joe Cummins
Toxin or virus resistance factors (mainly genes from the viruses) are being marketed. An insect virus, Baculovirus, is being modified with genes, such as scorpion toxin gene, diuretic hormone gene, juvenile hormone gene or mite toxin gene ... large companies who pay them handsomely (see the last issue of Gene Tinkering Blues 'Paying Off Agriculture Canada'). The biotechnology industry has launched ...
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Terminator Trees
Cornyebacterium diphtheria or related ADP-Ribosyltransferase toxins from other bacteria; but these toxin genes are less commonly used than the barnase gene. The preferred barnase gene ... to the floral MADS box genes, the poplar promoter gene PTD. The PTD promoter was combined with the diphtheria-toxin gene, DTA, to produce sterile polar without the ...
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Pharmageddon
AIDS virologists [7-9] because the gp120 gene and gene product can undermine our immune system and generate new viruses and bacteria that cause ... the pathogen. A number of transgenic plant vaccines currently being developed will be discussed. Cholera toxin gene was introduced into the chloroplast genome of the tobacco, the construction was geared towards high ...
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honey honey
The Bacillus thuringiensis toxin gene modifications are designated Cry but there are numerous alleles and thses have distinct characteristics. ... ,C,Tregida,E and Philip,B “Effect of ingestion of a Bacillus thuringiernsis toxin and a trypsin inhibitor on honey bee flight activity and longevity” 2001 Apidologie 32, ...
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Re: E.coli
E coli 0157:H7 and the other verotoxin toxin strains acquired the toxin gene by laboratory genetic engineering. There has been serious discussion in the literature debating ... that the verotoxin genes can be transmitted born on a transducing bacteriaphage (meaning that the toxin genes may be transmitted between bacteria on a virus). It seems most likely that the ...
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Mutant Red Herrings? (Do or Die)
The toxin-producing gene of the bacterium Bacillus thurigiensis is commonly engineered into crops to provide them with a built-in insecticide. However, the toxin produced is known to resist degradation by binding ...
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Scientists are pushing genetic material across natural boundaries ... be washed off the produce. With Bt crops where the toxin-producing gene has been engineered into the plant's DNA, the Bt ... plant will die, until caterpillars develop "resistance" to the Bt toxin. In fact, in May of 1999, researchers at Cornell University ...
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Invasive Non-Native Plants
It produces huge quantities of wind-borne seeds, grows rapidly, and secretes a toxin that kills other plants. Its long compound leaves, with 11-25 lance-shaped leaflets, ... Thompson, Master Gardener Consultant, Maryland Cooperative Extension, March, 1999. Sources include "Exotic Plants," by Gene Cooley, MD Natural Heritage Program; "Invasive Alien Plant Species of Virginia," by the ...
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Millions Against Monsanto Campaign - Organic Consumers Association
This disease creates a toxin in the infected wheat, making the crop unsuitable for human or animal consumption. Canada's ... : Friend of Kraft/Phillip Morris/Monsanto & Enemy of Poor People & Sustainable Agriculture 11/10 - Monsanto & Gene Giants Spread Genetic Pollution 11/4 - Farm Leader Percy Schmeiser's Battle Against Monsanto Continues ...
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