Sentence examples for gm canola from inspiring English sources
For example, stating that 'seed dormancy of some GM canola is significantly higher than non-GM controls under some field conditions (Linder. 1998. Ecological Applications 8 1180 1195)' without mentioning that the GM trait modifies oil composition, is misleading.
Kojonup farmer Steve Marsh sued his former childhood friend Michael Baxter over a claim that he lost organic certification for 70% of his farm due to contamination from Baxter's GM canola.
Marsh, whose farm is 260km south of Perth, lost the right to call his farm organic when GM canola blew onto his property from Michael Baxter's property next door.
"GM canola only posed a risk of transferring genetic material if a canola seed germinated in the Eagles Rest soil... and then later cross-fertilised through its pollen being exchanged with another compatible species," Justice Martin said.
Steve Marsh was suing his neighbour and former friend Michael Baxter for $85,000 after claiming that GM canola drifted onto his oats, rye and sheep farm at Kojonup, 260km south-east of Perth.
News from the US last week tells us that GM canola is capable of spreading over large distances, so it raises the question of what would happen if two EU member states sharing a land border were to take opposite views on a particular GM crop.
An organic farmer from Western Australia who took on his GM canola-cultivating neighbour on contamination claims has failed in his bid to appeal against a large legal costs bill.
This implies that contamination of non-GM canola would be less than 1%, which is the cutoff that Australian regulators have discussed as acceptable and that their European counterparts have provisionally approved.
Demeke and Ratnayaka [ 9] developed a multiplex PCR assay for the detection of GM-canola OXY235 and T45 in canola samples with a detection limit of 0.1%.
Moreover, only four crops soya, maize, canola (a high-yielding form of rape) and cotton accounted for almost all the GM-planted area.The optimists claimed that this was only the beginning.
