The promoter used in nearly all GM crops is designed to permanently turn on the foreign gene at high output.
Although scientists had claimed that the promoter would only turn on the foreign gene, it can accidentally turn on other natural plant genes—permanently.
These genes may overproduce an allergen, toxin, carcinogen or antinutrient, or regulators that block other genes.
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Check out the Le Monde research.
You may want to include it in future
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Comments by Jeffrey M. Smith
Date: May 11, 2007
Thank you for this update, which we will be sure to include in the newer editions of Genetic Roulette. Le Monde wrote an article about this new research, which is posted here: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/
article_4790.cfm.
