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GM wheat about to be planted in western Victoria Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Genetically-modified wheat will be planted in Victoria`s Wimmera Mallee within the next three weeks.
The Federal gene technology regulator approved the trials, which are the second part of a project looking at drought-tolerant wheat.
Victoria`s Department of Primary Industries completed Stage One last year, and found that some GM varieties yielded 20 per cent more than non-GM wheat.
The DPI`s Germann Spangenberg hopes to see those types of results again this time.
"So it`ll be a controlled release of up to 50 GM wheat lines, all of those modified individually with single genes, with a total of 15 genes being tested."
© 2008 ABC
Source: ABC
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