GMOs Archive
Herbicides cost the world’s farmers more than $12 billion each year. Yet despite this, around 10% of the crop is lost due to weeds. One problem is that many of the chemicals used do not discriminate between crops and weeds. …
Another strategy for getting a gene of interest into plant tissue is to blast the DNA through the plant cell walls with a particle gun. Unlike Ti plasmid transfer by Agrobacterium , this technique works with all types of plants. …
The first step in genetically engineering a plant is to identify a gene that will confer a specific desirable trait on the plant. In some ways, this is the hardest part of genetic engineering. The most desirable traits for a …