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The idea of banning genetically modified plants seems like folly to some scientists who work in crop technology, not to mention farmers who have grown GMOs for years. Martina Newell-McLoughlin, director of the International Biotechnical Program at University of California at Davis, grew up in Ireland, where the threat of potato famine reared its head over the centuries. She said scientists are experimenting with placing two genes from a wild potato into another potato that “confers almost complete, robust resistance” to potato blight disease.
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