It feeds billions of people worldwide. It is also one of Australia's biggest export crops.
But what if someone produced a variety of wheat or other crop that would only produce sterile seeds? What if the farmer were compelled to buy new seed annually as a result?
Is it ethical? Is it even possible?
It sure is.
It is called Genetic Restriction Use
Technology or "Terminator
Technology".
This website has been created to provide information on the science behind
GURTs.
Adam Dimech's
Terminator website aims to explain the science
behind Genetic Use Restriction Technology (GURT),
otherwise known as "Terminator Technology"
Discover how
plant scientists were able to develop crops that could
only produce sterile seed.
