But Combs was aquick study, and in addition to keeping up with her coworkers, she alsoimpressed her supervisors by
taking turfgrass courses, learning advancedmaintenance techniques and earning a pesticide license.
Decisions to deregulate any wild GM plant like the eucalyptus must
take into account this lack of research, said Hong Luo, a molecular biologist at Clemson University who has developed a gene containment system for another wild plant,
turfgrass.