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Post by blackox on Sept 25, 2014 8:11:37 GMT -5
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 25, 2014 12:57:20 GMT -5
So after reading this I'm guessing that you would use this around the outside of your corn? They're giving some pretty huge ranges. I'm lucky that the nearest farm to mine never plants corn. 1 mile away they have acres and acres...all sweet corn. In 2011 Monsanto planted 250,000 acres of GMO sweet corn. Thankfully the local guys are sticking with corn they know.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Sept 25, 2014 14:05:43 GMT -5
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Post by maicerochico on Sept 25, 2014 19:18:30 GMT -5
Yes, their corn has gametophytic incompatibility, the Ga1-S gene to be specific, which probably sourced either from the Colombian (popcorn) breed Pira or Pollo. I'd wager that all the company did was backcross the allele into USA commercial dent corns.
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Post by steev on Sept 25, 2014 20:13:37 GMT -5
Reading the brochure, I think it's just THEIR patented seed that you can buy instead of Monsanto's; it just rejects ANY pollen not its own; won't serve as a magic firewall between your pure shire corn and Monsanto's orc-spawn hordes.
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Post by blackox on Sept 26, 2014 17:58:12 GMT -5
So after reading this I'm guessing that you would use this around the outside of your corn? They're giving some pretty huge ranges. I'm lucky that the nearest farm to mine never plants corn. 1 mile away they have acres and acres...all sweet corn. In 2011 Monsanto planted 250,000 acres of GMO sweet corn. Thankfully the local guys are sticking with corn they know. That's sort of what I was thinking about. No escaping the GM corn here, although the farmers here seem to be shifting more and more towards soybeans, so I might be able to actually keep corn pure here in the very distant future.
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Post by blackox on Sept 26, 2014 18:03:30 GMT -5
I was sort of hoping for a magic firewall. Perhaps it's more worth it for me to invest my time and money into crops other than corn.
Although I can keep popcorn clean here, or is red dominant to yellow?
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Post by DarJones on Sept 27, 2014 0:12:06 GMT -5
This will work until Monsanto figures out that they can use Ga1-S for their own purposes. Then their corn will be compatible.
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Post by steev on Sept 28, 2014 21:15:41 GMT -5
Not to me.
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