I am usually against GMO food...

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Originally Posted by Arlanynna

thats not the same as mixing plants with animal genes.....thats not what most people are complaining about. There is just not enough independent studies, to say mixing plant with animals is safe, no matter what way you splice it. And for those who dont care thats just fine by me. Dont impede my right have a label put on my food so i can choose not to eat spiderweb apples, or turtle corn....

duh, gee tanks teach!

Originally Posted by weltschmerz

That's not what GMO means. Perhaps you should read up on genetic modification. Are you seriously saying that they have been modifying genes for thousands of years? Really?

to both of you, genetically modified means just that, either plant splicing, or even selecting specific plants that have either greater yields, or disease resistance, or both, or other traits the growers are looking for, and then those plants are cloned.

what the REAL talking point in this thread, which was pointed out to me by don draper, is in fact genetic engineering, not genetic modification. keep up.

[TheHurricaneKid]

Originally Posted by tilli

That's generally true. But Florida citrus, which is the subject of your OP, is not actually a monoculture. It's a collection of tasty varieties which have been grafted to a collection of nematode-resistant stocks. And since, according to your article, science has yet to find any citrus that's resistant to this bacteria, it's unlikely that wild stock would have helped in this instance anyway.

Yes, that's true...

There have been diseases where a single pathogen eliminates an entire genus of plants. The most famous being called the Dutch Elm Disease. Yet, even within the Ulmus genus, there happens to be a resistant species to said disease.

Finding such resistance is for the citrus plant is going to be an interesting challenge.

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Originally Posted by TheHurricaneKid

Yes, that's true...

There have been diseases where a single pathogen eliminates an entire genus of plants. The most famous being called the Dutch Elm Disease. Yet, even within the Ulmus genus, there happens to be a resistant species to said disease.

Finding such resistance is for the citrus plant is going to be an interesting challenge.

they've been looking for such for over 40 years. if it exisited naturally it would have been found by now.