>As Dragan has pointed out, the objective has NOT been to make plants more pest/disease resistent, but rather to make the plant more PESTICIDE resistent so they could sell more pesticide!
The first genetically modified crop I remember hearing about was a kind of rice designed to increase yield. It was being used in parts of Asia to help produce enough rice to feed the population.
Tamar
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