Controversial Trial of Genetically Modified Wheat Ends In Disappointment

sciencehabit writes: A controversial GM wheat trial has failed after more than £2 million of public money was spent protecting it from GM opponents. Researchers had hoped that the wheat modified to produce a warning pheromone would keep aphids away and attract their natural enemies, reducing the need for insecticides. Despite showing promise in the laboratory, the field trial failed to show any effect. “If you make a transgenic plant that produces that alarm continuously, it’s not going to work,” ecologist Marcel Dicke of Wageningen University in the Netherlands says. “You have a plant crying wolf all the time, and the bugs won’t listen to it any longer.”

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Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey fix for the share button

[terriblesharebutton]

Source at http://pastebin.com/wZKjNi1S If you're sick of the share button ruining the Slashdot experience, install the Tampermonkey extension and paste the code below into a Tampermonkey script to restore comments link

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// ==UserScript==
// @name Slashdot fixer
// @namespace http://your.homepage/
// @version 0.1
// @description Restores the comments link, removes the share button
// @author The Greater Good
// @match http://slashdot.org/
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==

var $ = window.jQuery;

$(function(){
$('article').each(function(){
var comments = $(this).find('.comment-bubble a').text();
var url = $(this).find('.comment-bubble a').attr('href');
var snip = '<a href="' + url + '#comments" class="read-more" title=""><span>Read the </span><strong class="comments">' + comments + '</strong> <span>comments</span> ';

$(this).find('footer div.popularity').html(snip);
$(this).find('footer div.popularity').removeClass('popularity');
});
});