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Re: Genetically engineered crops
« Reply #60 on: February 10, 2012, 11:07:56 am »
Well I always reserve the right to be wrong. :D  However, I'm pretty sure I have seen a number of ads in ag publications touting herbicidal solutions to weed problems in peanuts, and most of them are from seed companies.  Perhaps they aren't using the term "Roundup Ready". ???  I do know I see some awfully clean peanut fields these days.  Starting tonight, I will be on a hi-speed connection for a few days.  I'll do a little research and see what I can find.
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Re: Genetically engineered crops
« Reply #61 on: February 10, 2012, 03:08:17 pm »
DanG, I just confirmed with my brother (a row crop breeder in Tifton) that Roundup Ready or any other GMO peanuts do not exist commercially. He said that peanuts are very easy to modify, but because they are a smaller crop that does not have the same financial backing as cotton, corn, soybeans, etc. there has never been a strong push for legislation that would allow GMO peanuts. Also, he mentioned that there are many excellent herbicide chemistries for peanuts that allow farmers to get excellent weed control in conventional peanut varieties. That would explain why you see such clean fields :)
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Re: Genetically engineered crops
« Reply #62 on: February 12, 2012, 06:01:40 am »
Here is a link that my brother sent me after our conversation. Looks like genetic modification could be a solution to - rather than a cause of - severe peanut allergies. The researcher in the article was his biotech professor at UGA Tifton.

http://m.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/peanuts-with-le/
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Re: Genetically engineered crops
« Reply #63 on: February 12, 2012, 09:45:24 am »
That's pretty interesting stuff, Justin.  It would be neat if they could fix the problem with GMO.  It would be even neater to find out what caused it in the first place.  As I said, it could be anything, even something not connected with peanuts.  We have changed a lot of things in this old world in the last half-century, and there have been unanticipated results of most of those changes.  As somebody said, it could be that changes in human physiology are just breeding a weaker strain of people.  Folks who aren't able to reproduce are now assisted by chemical means so that they can have a baby.  Some people who wouldn't have survived childhood in the past are now living longer and bearing children, passing those genes on down the line.  Chemicals that didn't exist in my childhood are all around us, as is all kinds of radiation.  Everything we do has to be questioned, and not just when it is brand new.  The long-range results of seemingly innocuous actions can be devastating.  When I was a kid, we played with mercury and licked lead based paint.  Did that somehow modify our genes that we passed on to our kids and grandkids?  Who knows?  Milk used to come in glass bottles and water came in iron pipes.  Now they come in plastic made from no telling what.  One thing is for sure, we'll never run out of things to question and study! :P
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