GM wheat trial fails, but science wins anyway

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By Nathanael JohnsonJun 29, 2015, 4:50 pm42 pts
Five years ago, scientists at Rothamsted Research in England began breeding wheat that could be grown using fewer pesticides. They ended up engineering the wheat to give off an aphid alarm pheromone to scare insects away — a trick borrowed from mint plants. The wheat worked like a charm in the lab, but the…

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