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Nature 427, 395-396 (29 January 2004) |
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- University of Iowa
- Coralville, Iowa, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School
- Charlestown, MA
Crops behaving badly
Rick Roush1
BOOK REVIEWED-Dangerous Liaisons: When Cultivated Plants Mate with their Wild Relatives
by Norman C. Ellstrand
Johns Hopkins University Press: 2003. 268 pp. $65, £48
The ecological effects of genetically modified (GM) crops remain controversial, despite evidence of the crops' agricultural benefits, such as reduced pesticide use, fewer human poisonings and increased net incomes for farmers. Their most ardent critics argue that GM crops lead to the rapid evolution of resistance in pests, harm non-target species and soil organisms, and create 'superweeds' by introducing transgenes into wild plant populations.
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