When a plant has matured, it grows extra leaves usually on long spindly vines. ... When using viruses to move genes artificially, the virus carries the new gene into a recipient cell in the process of infecting that cell. ... Lists of Agricultural Research Topics suggest a variety of benefits companies have envisioned, including animals engineered for leaner meat, plants engineered for herbicide tolerance or insect resistance, bacteria engineered to produce drugs for livestock and more. ... Genes are being added to plants to enable them to remove heavy metals like mercury from the soil a...

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