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Re:Monsanto Weed Killer Roundup Faces New Doubts on Safety i... by DanBC on Thursday April 13, 2017 @07:59AM (#14106035)
> terminator seeds

Monsanto has a legitimate tricky choice here.

One lobby group was very concerned about cross contamination, about GM seed escaping from GM farms and getting to other places.

Terminator genes help fix that.

And sterile crop isn't new thing from GM, it's common for hybrid crops to do this too.

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Re:Monsanto Weed Killer Roundup Faces New Doubts on Safety i... by rusk on Thursday April 13, 2017 @10:43AM (#14107345)
F-1 Hybrid is the term. Cross a tasty tomato with a high-yield one, and you get a tasty high-yield tomato - but you can't use the seeds. This has been around for years.
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