GE Eucalyptus Trees To Be Planted In U.S. South

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GE Eucalyptus Trees To Be Planted In U.S. South

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Question.....IF they can do this with the Eucalyptus Tree, why not Bamboo????......Seems logical to me...

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http://forestry.about.com/b/2009/06/16/ ... -south.htm

GE Eucalyptus Trees To Be Planted In U.S. South
Tuesday June 16, 2009

ArborGen made a request to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to plant 260,000 flowering genetically engineered (GE) eucalyptus trees over 330 acres in seven states. USDA's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is processing this request. Several plantations already exist in Florida and Alabama.

The tree is Eucalyptus grandis x urophylla. The plant is a cold-hardy eucalyptus that ArborGen is developing for future commercial purposes, mainly pulp for paper.

Several environmental groups, including Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP), are fighting the project. GJEP contents that introduced Eucalyptus hybrids "are quite likely" to become invasive. "In other countries where eucalyptus have been introduced, they are well known for escaping and colonizing native ecosystems."

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http://www.arborgen.com/cms/upload/Web% ... .24.07.pdf
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