horizontal gene transfer

Horizontal Gene Transmission For centuries, humankind has made improvements to crop plants through selective breeding and hybridization, the controlled pollination of plants. Plant technology is an extension of this traditional plant breeding with one important difference, plant biotechnology allows for the transfer of a greater variety of genetic information in a more precise controlled manner. Since introduction of plant biotechnology, many farmers have planted millions of acres of biotech corn, cotton, soybeans, fruit, and other …

…of economically useful alleles. Several European Governments are banning the use of genetically modified crops to prevent all of these outcomes to occur. For a conclusion, I feel that the supporters of horizontal gene transfer have the strongest argument. Horizontal gene transfer allows plants breeders to develop crops with specific beneficial traits. Many of these beneficial traits in new plant varieties fight plant pests that can be devastating to crops and others provide quality improvements.