Genetically Modified Plants?

Genetically modified plants can have successful results, but you must be careful with them. There is a bright side to genetically modified plants. Some modifications are successful and do not have harmful results, but this takes years to get perfect. With one plant that has been modified to fight off diseases or to grow larger or etc., there is always another plant having harmful results. Different plants can have different outcomes from chemicals. Although the plants may look the same, the genetic structure of the plants can be the complete opposite. Some modified plants exposed to certain chemicals can have very harmful results. Vaccines or chemical mutations do not always work. There is always at least a 1% chance of something going wrong.

Many plants have been successfully modified to fight off diseases like the Papaya plant of Hawaii. The Papaya plant has been modified to be immune to very harmful diseases. But there is always something going wrong. The white tiger orchid suffered from Phragmipedium Panthera because of modification. The results made the plant turn into the “ultimate weed” or as a more scientific name a monoculture. They weed now crowds other species, chokes trees and grass. As you can see, genetic modification can always go wrong, even with the smallest change disaster can strike.

Not all plants react to certain chemicals the same way others do. Some plants are modified the same as other plants, even though they are completely different. Just be cause a plant is in the same family does not mean it will have the same reaction. For instance, a rose could be given the same genetic modification as a violet. They may both still be flowers but it is completely different, the stem on a rose has thorns in some cases, yet a violet does not. A rose is red, and a violet is blue. All of these different classifications can mean more of a chance of something going wrong with the way it may react to chemicals or modifications. These results may be good or they may be very harmful to the plant, fruit, or vegetable.

Many genetic modifications can be very beneficial for the farming business. Many medical advances have been made due to uses for plants. Although there are many good things about modifications there are plenty of things to go wrong in the process. Some things can go unnoticed but some mutations can grow very fatal for some plants. Genetic alterations can be dangerous but you have to have a controlled variable and not let any diseases go widespread.