date:Jul 31, 2012
g conducted not to commercialise potatoes, but to analyse the effect on the environment and the pathogen itself, Spink added.
However, campaigners including The Irish Organic Farmers and Growers Association (IOFGA) have opposed the trials stating that cisgenic technology is not benign and that the move would risk Ireland's status as a GM-free nation.
This will mark the first GM trial in Ireland since 1996, when an attempt to grow GM sugar beets met with strong protests from the environmentalists