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Catch 22: Gene modified crops threatened by superweeds

To quote the movie Jurassic Park, “Nature finds a way.” In this case, according to a ground-breaking story in the New York Times, is the ability of weeds to circumvent the super weedkiller Roundup: Just as the heavy use of antibiotics contributed to the rise of drug-resistant supergerms, American farmers’ near-ubiquitous use of the weedkiller [...]
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