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Hi Saneters,
Anyone want to try to answer this one?
Thomas Wittman
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From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
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Is there any information available on how these types were produced?
Male sterility can be produced the "old fashioned" way by just exposing
seed to mutagens - chemicals, radiation, etc. instead of what is now
called genetic engineering. That's the way Nature produces mutations,
too. Male sterility's main use is in making commercial F1 hybrids (such
as corn). Combining the male sterility with tolerance to glufosinate
would be where the engineering comes in, I would think. The question
is, do these lines combine both sterility and tolerance to glufosinate
in the same line?
-Lon Rombough
http://www.hevanet.com/lonrom
Twittman@aol.com wrote:
>
> USDA approves Pioneer Hi-Bred bioengineered corn
>
> WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) - Three genetically engineered corn lines
> developed by Pioneer Hi-Bred <A HREF="aol://4785:PHB"><PHB.N></A> have been
> approved by the U.S. Agriculture Department for non-regulated status, USDA
> said Friday.
>
> The corn lines, 676, 678 and 680, were genetically engineered for male
> sterility and tolerance to the herbicide glufosinate.
>
> USDA said in a Federal Register notice it decided to stop regulating the
corn
> lines after field tests showed the plants do not harm other plants,
nontarget
> organisms or the environment.
>
> 18:17 05-29-9
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