Sentences with phrase «contaminating wild plants»

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If modified plants escape into the natural environment, they could contaminate water supplies, irreversibly alter wild species, or even enter the human food chain, which nearly happened in 2002.

When scientists engineered the plants to express the glutathione transferase (DmGSTE6) gene found in fruit flies, they found that plants expressing the gene were more resistant to TNT and were better able to remove it from contaminated soil than wild - type plants without the gene.

There is a code of practice you must follow to dispose of it or you could be issued with an Antisocial Behaviour Order (that's an ASBO), face fines of up to # 5000 or even up to two years in prison if you allow contaminated soil or plant material from any waste you transfer to spread into the wild.