The Future: six drivers of global change Part 121

577 with pollen from citrus varieties that have seeds

Ibid.

578 all of the major commodity crops

Union of Concerned Scientists, "Industrial Agriculture: Features and Policy," May 17, 2007, http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/science_and_impacts/impacts_industrial_agriculture/industrial-agriculture-features.html.

579 reliance on monocultures makes agriculture highly vulnerable to pests

Ibid.

580 stem rust began attacking wheat fields in Uganda

"Scientists in Kenya Try to Fend Off Disease Threatening World's Wheat Crop," PBS NewsHour, December 28, 2011, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/globalhealth/july-dec11/wheat_12-28.html.

581 Similarly, ca.s.sava

Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, "Virus Ravages Ca.s.sava Plants in Africa," June 1, 2010.

582 "The speed is just unprecedented"

Ibid.

583 Ireland's heavy reliance on a monocultured potato strain from the Andes

Nicholas Wade, "Testing Links Potato Famine to an Origin in the Andes," New York Times, June 7, 2011.

584 destroyed in 1970 by a new variety of Southern corn leaf blight

Union of Concerned Scientists, "Industrial Agriculture: Features and Policy."

585 robust global work under way to genetically modify trees

Clive Cookson, "Barking Up the Right GM Tree?," Financial Times, July 20, 2012.

586 genes from one species into the genome of another

National Research Council, "Emerging Technologies to Benefit Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia," 2009.

587 synthetic growth hormone in dairy cattle

Carina Storrs, "Hormones in Food: Should You Worry?," Health.com/Huffington Post, January 19, 2011.

588 elevated levels of IGF and a significantly higher risk of prostate cancer

Ibid.

589 for the labeling of milk with bovine growth hormone

Andrew Martin, "Consumers Won't Know What They're Missing," New York Times, November 11, 2007.

590 has significantly decreased its use

Dan Shapley, "Eli Lilly Buys Monsanto's Dairy Hormone Business," Daily Green, August 20, 2008, http://www.thedailygreen.com/healthy-eating/eat-safe/rbst-hormones-milk-470820; "Safeway Milk Free of Bovine Hormone," a.s.sociated Press, January 21, 2007.

591 into the embryos of dairy cows

Haze Fan and Maxim Duncan, "Cows Churn Out 'Human Breast Milk,' " Reuters, June 16, 2011.

592 at the National Inst.i.tute of Agribusiness Technology

Robin Yapp, "Scientists Create Cow That Produces 'Human' Milk," Telegraph, June 11, 2011.

593 intended for direct consumption by human beings

Harmon and Pollack, "Battle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food."