…the results showed that a related weed had picked up herbicide resistance as a result of cross-fertilisation with GM oil seed rape, something that scientists had said would not happen in the countryside.
The discovery raises fears that herbicide-resistant superweeds could develop in the British countryside if GM crops were grown commercially.
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