2009-07-01 | permalink

Anti-biotech groups obstruct GE tree development

The potential of forest biotechnology to help address significant social and environmental issues is being ”strangled at birth” by the rigid opposition of some groups and regulations that effectively preclude even the testing of genetically modified trees, scientists argue in a new report. [...] the potential will be lost to use this powerful tool to create trees that grow faster, better resist drought or disease, restore threatened species, reduce costs, contribute to renewable energy, sequester carbon, improve environmental cleanup, and produce badly needed products for global consumers, the scientists said.

• Oregon State University, USA: Anti-biotech groups obstruct forest biotechnology