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GM grasses

GM creeping bentgrass resistant to the weedkiller glyphosate (brandname RoundUp) caused major problems in the USA in 2002, when it spread and crossed with other grass, creating feral glyphosate-resistant plants.

Other experimental GM grasses have been developed in the USA.

In 2017, Brazil became the second country, after Indonesia, to approve the commercial cultivation of GM sugarcane, genetically engineered to resist the sugarcane borer.

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• Press articles
  • Reuters: Brazil sugar mills start genetically-modified cane plantation (2nd March 2018)

  • SciDev: Brazil's transgenic sugarcane stirs up controversy (20th June 2017)

  • The Oregonian: Feds deregulate controversial GMO grass seed (18th January 2017)

• External links
  • Field Questions: GM Grass Goes Yard (1st February 2014)

• GeneWatch reports
  • Non-Food GM Crops: New Dawn or False Hope? - Part 2: Grasses, Flowers, Trees, Fibre Crops and Industrial Uses 1st March 2004

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