Recent research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) has demonstrated that the growing of genetically modified (GM) herbicideresistant sugar beet on farmland currently carrying a healthy population of weeds and their associated seeds could have serious consequences for farmland bird species that are at present exhibiting significant declines. The research involved modelling a simple cropweed-b

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