Genetically modified plants are not risk-free.
But pollen from genetically modified plants can pollinate nonmodified crops in nearby fields.
Polls by the European Commission have shown that 80percentto90percentcent of Europeans distrust genetically modified plants.
Some Europeans, for example, object to imports of U.S. food containing genetically modified plants.
Some Europeans, for example, object to imports of American food containing genetically modified plants.
Breeders are also still trying to create true white reblooming day lilies, and someday blue blossoms may spring forth from genetically modified plants.
In Bayer's submission, the company praises the promise of genetically modified plants, while the NFU raises the prospect of a return to more damaging sprays.
During the 1990's, they faced down Monsanto and other chemical giants in a public debate over the ethics of creating genetically modified plants whose seeds were sterile.
The rationale for the biosafety treaty was that genetically modified plants, animals or micro-organisms could displace or endanger native crops or microbes.
The work on genetically modified plants was based in part on Dr. Wu's earlier studies of DNA sequencing in the 1970s.
At the moment, despite the brouhaha they have created in some countries, genetically modified plants are primitive things.
