Re: Rootworm resistant corn

From: Toni Hawryluk (tonihawr@email.msn.com)
Date: Tue Jan 11 2000 - 20:07:53 EST


>Yeah, I think you are right, but some people are very worried about putting
>these into the soil. Obviously, when the corn roots decompose, these
things
>go into the soil (along with all the other corn proteins). From what I
know
>about soil microbiology, all these proteins, including Bt toxins, are eaten
>up pretty quick by the hungry flora.
>
>Dale

Was "what you know ...." the results of say, 50 years of measuring and
recording what happened ? On - say - a range of a couple of *counties*
where one crop - corn - is planted ? and what if the "hungry flora" is
"affected adversely" like poisoned, by the *manufactured* Bt, so what
you eventually have is eternally dead soil ?

Toni

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