linkedin post 2014-03-15 06:27:32

GENOME-SPECIFIC WEAPONS. “Agriculture is highly vulnerable to genotype-specific weapons. Agriculture, particularly in many developed countries, has several properties that make it vulnerable to attack with genotype-specific weapons. Typically it employs monocropping of large acreages with genetically identical cultivars, and high-density husbandry of genetically inbred animal strains. These agronomic practices reduce the genetic variability that makes populations resistant to genotype-specific weapons, and it creates conditions (large, dense populations) that facilitate disease spread.”

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