Cardamine hirsuta
Jadeboy48@aol.com (Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:51:18 PDT)

I hate to say this but the Roundup question is getting annoying. Lets make
it easy. If you want to kill weedy plants by non chemical means go ahead
and do it. But I really don't care to hear about chemical sprays on a never
ending basis. On the contrary complaining about chemicals in the enviroment
is a waste of time.We all know they are there but if you think you can
shut down a major chemical company, good luck. These pesticides were developed
after WW2. One goal was to produce more food for developing countries to
feed it's citizens. In the us farmers were shown by the chemical company how
they could increase production and make more money. Food growing areas of
the world have been saturated with pesticides, It is too late after50+
years to get farmers not to use these products. So while we may not like the
situation you cannot change it.From my latest agriculture reading bananas
are the most heavily treated food crop. I think each of us can do our best
by severely limiting the amount of pesticides we use in our gardens.Get rid
of those old chemicals at a site set up to handle them. Don't dump the
chemicals in garbage dumps or just anywhere! Russ H.
In a message dated 4/3/2013 3:45:43 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
christian.lachaud@gmail.com writes:

Alberto,

Sure, this would be interesting.
You have mentionned GM soy engineered for roundup.
Have you ever heard about any GMO which seeds would get activated by
roundup ?
In the case of Cardamine hirsuta, the seed is so tiny that it may be more
exposed to environemental chemicals than bigger seeds ?

But if such GMOs do exist, one will need to understand if it was possible
that Cardamine got polluted by the roundup genes ?
If it is not genetic pollution, then what is it ?

Has anyone ever observed this phenomenon somewhere else or is it my local
strain of Cardamine only, and I'm so lucky ?

*Dr. Christian M. Lachaud, PhD*
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