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Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta
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The Field Trials of Genetically Engineered Wheat
We got spectacular results in the laboratory, both of ning cereal aphids away from the er the cereal. Also attracting in beneficial insects, specifically parasitic wasps, which lay their eggs in aphids. So we applied to them for permission to do field trials with the two varieties,. er, containing the b tfanasine and the original variety as the control. And sure enough, we got about ten times more e b to pharmasine from the double construct as with the single construct. But sadly, we got no statistically significant in our reduction in ter apid. There was no effect on the aphid population of the genetic engineering. We couldn't tell any difference between the genetically engineered
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