Next-Generation GM Crops Soon to Enter Market
June 1, 2007| |
A new breed of transgenic crops will soon make their debut. Researchers at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln have inserted a gene for herbicide resistance from a bacterium into plants, creating new crops which could help combat the spread of resistance to other commonly used herbicides such as glyphosate. The plants are resistant to a compound called dicamba, which kills broadleaf weeds but spares grasses, and has been used for decades to protect fields planted with corn, a member of the grass family.
Monsanto, the maker of the 'Roundup Ready' line of glyphosate-resistant crops, has already licensed the dicamba technology. The company says it hopes to make dicamba-resistant soybeans available commercially in three to seven years, with cotton to follow after that.
Read the news article at http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070521/full/070521-10.html.
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