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Re:Citrus Farmers Facing Deadly Bacteria Turn to Antibiotics by ekianjo on Friday May 17, 2019 @11:58PM (#19945503)
Do you have any source for that?
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Re:Citrus Farmers Facing Deadly Bacteria Turn to Antibiotics by code_duck on Saturday May 18, 2019 @12:16AM (#19945560)
Sure, the traits are typically insect tolerance and herbicide tolerance. I guess I’m giving BT short shrift. Many crops have both traits.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/adoption-of-genetical...

Upwards of 90% of all major crops (corn, soy, cotton, beets) have BT, HT or both. Other GMO crops and traits are dwarfed by scale of this mass cultivation.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/DataFiles/47649/alltables.x...

Notice that traits like drought resistance don’t come up at all.

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