MONSANTO EXECUTIVE NAMED AS EPA DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR

[Paul Cherubini]

> Ah! But it does seem relevant to the subject of Lep habitat conservation.
> ............Chris Durden

Tuesday May 1 11:15 AM ET
Scientists Praise Biotech Crops, Backlash Cited 

 By Todd Zwillich

 WASHINGTON (Reuters Health) - <snips>:

Modified soybeans, the most common transgenic crop currently used
in the US, have cut the use of herbicides by 12% since 1995,
said Dr. Roger N. Beachy, president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science
Center in St. Louis, Missouri.

 At the same time, corn engineered to produce a natural pesticide
 known as BT has cut use of insecticides by up to 3% in fields
 where it is used, he said at a forum on genomics held at the
 National Academy of Sciences (news - web sites) (NAS) annual
 meeting.

 
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