Assessing GM canola's threat to native bushland
Can genetically modified (GM) canola (Brassica napus) survive outside a controlled paddock environment, and is it a biodiversity threat to our remnant bushland?
Scientists have been researching this very question since 2009, when WA farmers were granted an exemption to the moratorium on the planting of GM canola.
According to University of Western Australia (UWA) plant biologists Dr Roberto Busi and Professor Stephen Powles the simple answer is no.
Results from their four-year study investigating the demographics of transgenic glyphosate-resistant canola have quashed concerns that GM canola is competitive enough to survive in a natural bushland environment.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-gm-canola-threat-native-bushland.html#jCp
