Posted on 03/27/2021 1:09:54 PM PDT by House Atreides
Yes. You are correct.
But even worse, this article is utter crap distortive propaganda.
The study says the gene transfer took place 35 to 50 million years ago. This BGR article purposely makes it seem the fly gained this gene recently.
Ping
30 to 45 days
I was going to say it was created in a Chinese lab... with our tax dollars.
ROFLOL !! brilliant !!
Finally found something coherent! The gene doesn't produce the toxin, but protects the plants from their toxins, and so also protects this particular species of whitefly.
This gene may have an important function in plants. The plants generate toxins to defend themselves from attack by animals. The team suspects that the BtPMaT1 gene may help plants store these toxins in a harmless form so the plants don’t poison themselves.
#4. No! “The Relic” with Tom Sizemore and Penelope Anne Miller. It was just on cable the other day. Human and plant DNA plus that of a reptile combined into a massive killer (looked like Michael Moore and Maxine Waters rolled into one.
BtPMaT1, maybe bacteria thurengensis, a naturally-occurring microbe commonly-used by organic gardening and for mosquito control? Mosaic virus will cross from tobacco to tomato, potato, other plants (those three, plus peppers, ground cherries, tomatillo, chinese lanterns, petunias, oleander, poinsettia, datura, jerusalem cherry, love apple, eggplant, are all relatives). Planting solanum nigrum (deadly nightshade) in the potato garden is an effective means of controlling the potato beetle, because the smell that attracts the beetle is stronger in the nightshade, they land, they munch, their nervous system shuts down, then then tumble off, dead. If they adapt to not follow the scent, they go extinct. Heh heh...
I think Al Capone put it best. I hate Bad Bugs in my garden as much as he hates Elliot Ness!
“I want this guy dead! I want his family dead! I want his house burned to the ground! I want to go there in the middle of the night and p*ss on his ashes!” ;)
Ew.
About that.
Don't believe it for a minute.
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