The Christian Science Monitor, October 9th, 2003
Byline: Robert C. Cowen
In science, the old sometimes works as well as the new. Throw politics into the mix and the old starts to look a whole lot better.
That's what appears to be happening with wheat breeders and their battle against a huge nemesis: the Hessian fly.
It turns out that scientists have found the genes needed to make wheat more resistant to the plant-eating insect. The big question is how they get those genes into the wheat: through traditional plant breeding or genetic engineering?
The experience in wheat is an example of the renaissance of plant breeding and could lead t...
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