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UK – PESTICIDE USE CHANGES FOR GM
Changes to pesticide spraying could reduce GM harm: Leaving just 2% of transgenic crop rows unsprayed could boost diversity.
18 April, 2007. Source: Nature - http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070416/full/070416-8.html
British crop researchers are, according to this story, claiming that they have developed a method to stop transgenic crops from damaging the biodiversity of weeds and seeds. By leaving two rows in every 100 unsprayed with pesticides, enough diversity can be preserved to prevent knock-on effects on birds and other animals, they calculate.
Researchers led by John Pidgeon of Broom's Barn Research Station in Bury St Edmunds, UK., were cited as saying the method could help farmers to reap the economic benefits of planting herbicide-resistant crops while avoiding the environmental damage of blanket pesticide spraying.
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