[PCA] NEWS: Paper industry tests genetically altered trees

Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Tue Jun 8 09:04:45 CDT 2010


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100607/ap_on_bi_ge/us_food_and_farm_bioengineered_eucalyptus

Paper industry tests genetically altered trees
By Mitch Stacy, Associated Press Writer -- Mon Jun 7, 5:40 am ET

TAMPA, Fla. -- The commercial paper industry's plans to plant forests of 
genetically altered eucalyptus trees in seven Southern states have 
generated more cries from critics worried that such a large introduction 
of a bioengineered nonnative plant could throw natural ecosystems out of 
whack.

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