Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn

Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by gravelc on Monday August 09, 2021 @10:05PM (#28124493)

Yes, it's evolved significantly. For example, plants expressing a Snf7-targeting double-stranded RNA to control western corn root worm are now commercialised. dsRNA does not have the toxicity issues associated with many synthetic and organic insecticides, and is far more specific (so doesn't impact on beneficial species). There are no additional applications of anything required for the effect.

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Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by crmrc114 on Monday August 09, 2021 @10:17PM (#28124553)

Where do you learn this, and can you please point me to some books or website. I really am excited about this kind of biotech

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Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by grepfru_it on Monday August 09, 2021 @10:26PM (#28124605)

I like to reverse engineer, I googled “snf7 corn” which yielded this

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3883649/

Only you know how far this rabbit hole goes

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Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by watchdogtimer on Monday August 09, 2021 @10:28PM (#28124617)

Here's a research paper on the topic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5626700/

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Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by gravelc on Monday August 09, 2021 @10:36PM (#28124648)

Here's a good review by very well regarded experts in the field:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2020.00451...

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