Stephanie Dearing
Digital Journal
A University of Arkansas researcher has found genetically modified canola growing wild in Dakota — but more than that, she found two different GM varieties had interbred to produce a completely new GM canola.
Dr. Cynthia Sagers, an ecologist with the University of Arkansas, presented her findings to the 9th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America on Friday. Sagers said her findings showed there is a lack of “proper monitoring” and control of GM plants in the United States, reported Nature. Sagers said
“The extent of the escape is unprecedented.”
NPR reported that all the varieties of GM canola that Sagers and her team found growing wild in Dakota were all modified to be resistant to Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup, but at least two different GM varieties bred together to produce a third variety of GM with a new trait, prompting Sagers to say
“What we’ve demonstrated in this study is a large-scale escape of a genetically modified crop in the United States.”
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