Weeds Do Become Resistant To Herbicides, And

We Wouldn't Think Of Going To Our Doctor And Saying 'treat Me The Way Doctors Treated People In The 19th Century', And Yet That's What We're Demanding In Food Production.

We Have Domesticated Crops Over A Very Long Period Of Time, Like Tens Of Thousands Of Years. And Crops Get - Seeds Get Carried. Sometimes, If They're Very Small Seeds, They Get Scattered Off Trucks. Pollen Travels.

In Many Places In The Developed World, We Eat Or Waste Probably Twice As Many Food Calories As We Really Need. We're Wasteful Of Food. We Ship All Over The World. We're Now Realizing That Generating The Energy To Ship The Food Around The World Is Also Ruining Our Climate.

Jumping Genes Are Fundamental Because They're Agents Of Change. Everybody Knows That Organisms Evolve. What Makes Them Evolve Is That Their Genes Are Dynamic And In Motion. A Familiar Example Is The Stripe-y Corn - Called Indian Corn - That You Buy In The Fall.

New Molecular Methods That Add Or Modify Genes Can Protect Plants From Diseases And Pests And Improve Crops In Ways That Are Both More Environmentally Benign And Beyond The Capability Of Older Methods.