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Changes to pesticide spraying could reduce GM harm

Leaving just 2% of transgenic crop rows unsprayed could boost diversity.

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Hopkin, M. Changes to pesticide spraying could reduce GM harm. Nature (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/news070416-8

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