GM POLLEN
October 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALL
GENETICALLY modified (GM) grass pollen has been blown up to 21 kilometres before pollinating other grasses, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found. This contamination zone is much wider than previously measured. The research focused on an experimental herbicide-resistant variety of GM creeping bentgrass, used on golf greens.
GENETICALLY modified (GM) grass pollen has been blown up to 21 kilometres before pollinating other grasses, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found. This contamination zone is much wider than previously measured. The research focused on an experimental herbicide-resistant variety of GM creeping bentgrass, used on golf greens.
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