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The exciting prospect that biotechnology will transform the technology of agriculture must, sadly, be moderated by the certainty that progress will be unreasonably delayed.
Outside of its native South America, salvinia is one of the world's worst aquatic weeds. Conventional control is prohibitively expensive, but now biological control using a beetle has become a reality.
