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==Issues== | ==Issues== | ||
As mentioned [[#Other|earlier]], current research into genetic markers involves looking at alternatives to antibiotic and herbicidal resistance. Both the commercial and research sectors have reason to adopt alternative techniques. In the commercial sector, there is the omnipresent public fear of growing and consuming "genetically modified crops". In the research sector, new techniques can decrease costs, time, labor, and error rates (it is always possible that wild-type cultures can grow under antibiotic/herbicidal conditions). Either sector would also be held responsible by governments should their modified organisms escape into the environment and proliferate. | As mentioned [[#Other|earlier]], current research into genetic markers involves looking at alternatives to antibiotic and herbicidal resistance. Both the commercial and research sectors have reason to adopt alternative techniques. In the commercial sector, there is the omnipresent public fear of growing and consuming "genetically modified crops". In the research sector, new techniques can decrease costs, time, labor, and error rates (it is always possible that wild-type cultures can grow under antibiotic/herbicidal conditions). Either sector would also be held responsible by governments should their modified organisms escape into the environment and proliferate. | ||
=== | ===Example: Proliferation of glyphosate resistance=== | ||
[[Image:Spread of Glyphosate Resistance.jpg|thumb|right|Since the introduction of glyphosate resistance in 1996, the amount of wild weeds resistant to glyphosate has exploded<cite>Owen2010</cite>.]] | |||
