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The benefits and implications of improving plant productivity
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The benefits and implications of improving plant productivity A crop plant is a plant grown for food. Cereals are the most important crop plant grown in the world. Crop plants are very important as we need them for food. Therefore crops can be genetically engineered to be resistant to weed killers. They also have other various advantages. Genetic modification can be defined as altering the genetic make-up of a living organism by using a particular method (DNA technology) to transfer one or more genes from one organism to another. Plants, bacteria, fungi and animals whose genes have been altered by these methods are called 'genetically modified (1). However serious questions have been raised about fears of growing genetically modified crops including concern for human health and wildlife habitats. Insecticides used on non-GM crops kill some good insects as well as target insects. But with Bt maize, the reduction in use...
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