HEAVEN knows where it came from. It was just one of those daft thoughts that
ghost in out of nowhere in the early hours when you’re half asleep.
Herbicide-resistant plants, said the mystery voice, could be the most
formidable ally yet in the battle environmentalists are waging against the use
of chemical weedkillers.
How on earth do you work that one out, you might well ask? Aren’t these
“Frankencrops” the very spawn of the devil, spreading herbicide-resistance genes
to all and sundry, creating superweeds that can’t be killed by any known
weedkiller? Yes, indeed they are. And that’s precisely the…
