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VOA Special English Agriculture Report #01 << Listening Skill



Meredith Schafer is a graduate student. They were traveling in the state of North Dakota on a project. They noticed pretty yellow flowers. Farmer grows canola for seeds to make cooking oil. Canola is used for animal feed and biofuel but the canola plants they saw were not growing in farm fields.
     The researchers decided to test the plants. They had brought along special testing papers for the project they were working on. They crushed some of the leaves in water and added the test strips. The results is the weedy canola plants contained  genetic changes. If a plant is genetically modified, its mean genes have been changed to produce desired qualities.

     The researchers traveled more than five thousand kilometers to find canola. They stopped every eight kilometers to count plants and take samples to test vehicle. They finding at a recent meeting of  the  Ecological Society of America. The scientists found canola plants in almost half of the places they investigated.

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