{"id":139716,"date":"2014-09-25T15:46:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T15:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=139716"},"modified":"2014-09-25T18:30:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T18:30:46","slug":"organic-ready-corn-replace-monsantos-gmo-corn-cross-pollination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/organic-ready-corn-replace-monsantos-gmo-corn-cross-pollination\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Organic Ready\u2019 Corn to Replace Monsanto\u2019s GMO Corn, Cross-Pollination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>CHRISTINA SARICH<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s some of the best news all year for non-GMO supporters.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/civileats.com\/2014\/09\/05\/this-breeder-is-working-on-organic-ready-corn-that-blocks-gmo-contamination\/\">Frank Kutka is working to save our heirloom corn<\/a>\u00a0from cross-breeding with genetically modified corn. He\u2019s been diligently at work for over 15 years now developing what he calls \u201cOrganic Ready\u201d corn varieties that have the ability to block cross-pollination, thus eliminating Monsanto\u2019s prevalently grown GMO corn from infesting organic farmer\u2019s crops.<\/p>\n<p>Kutka says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe need corn that organic farmers can grow without fear of GMO contamination,\u201d says Kutka, who is in the fourth year of a five-year breeding project funded by the\u00a0Organic Farming Research Foundation.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Needless to say, Kutka, like all farmers growing organic crops, faces an enormous challenge. U.S. farmers currently plant millions of acres of GMO corn, among other GMO crops. Around 93% of the year\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ers.usda.gov\/data-products\/adoption-of-genetically-engineered-crops-in-the-us\/recent-trends-in-ge-adoption.aspx#.VCMGsfldXh4\">corn crop was genetically modified<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While this makes Monsanto happy, it leaves those looking for non-contaminated, heirloom, organic, non-GMO corn a little miffed, to say the least. These millions of acres of corn can also easily contaminate other crops \u2014 including those which are not even corn, just because mother nature continues to work. GMO genes cross over into other plants, causing them to contain variant DNA like the mother plant. This is many <a href=\"http:\/\/naturalsociety.com\/ban-label-gmo-debate\/\">argue that GMO crops must be banned<\/a>, and that GMO labeling simply isn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n<p>Kutka\u2019s research concentrates on gametophytic incompatibility to protect his organic corn. By focusing on naturally occurring traits\u00a0and the ancient grain teosinte that make it difficult for GMO pollen to enter the corn silks, thus preventing cross-pollination, he hopes to make his corn incompatible with GMO cross-breeding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/organic-ready-corn-to-replace-monsantos-gmo-corn-cross-pollination\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHRISTINA SARICH Here\u2019s some of the best news all year for non-GMO supporters.\u00a0Frank Kutka is working to save our heirloom corn\u00a0from cross-breeding with genetically modified corn. He\u2019s been diligently at work for over 15 years now developing what he calls \u201cOrganic Ready\u201d corn varieties that have the ability to block cross-pollination, thus eliminating Monsanto\u2019s prevalently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,955,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-139716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-health","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}