Concerns regarding RDT in agriculture include risks associated with monoculture (reduced biodiversity, disease susceptibility), gene flow to weeds (herbicide resistance), and contamination of organic crops.
Concerns in agriculture include monoculture increasing disease vulnerability and reducing biodiversity, the spread of herbicide resistance via interbreeding with weeds, and potential contamination of organic crops.
| Front | Concerns with use of Recombinant DNA technology in agriculture |
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| Back | Farmers may plant only one type of plant (monoculture) which makes the whole crop vulnerable to disease as they are genetically identical. Monocultures reduce biodiversity Weeds that are resistant to herbicides, if a transformed crop interbreeds with wild plants there could be an uncontrollable spread of recombinant DNA Organic farmed could have crops contaminated by wind-blown seeds from nearby genetically modified crops |
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