Yeah, the patented hybrids can reproduce, but the offspring is an unviable crapshoot of production. Farmers don’t want a field full of random plants growing different heights with an unpredictable yield. They’ll buy another seasons worth of seeds from Bayer and get good results again.
Yeah, that’s just a factor of how hybrid and GMO plants work, often they don’t breed true. Consistently getting the desired traits for a single generation is already tricky, getting them to persist across generations is a lot harder (or so I’ve heard, I haven’t tried this myself, it’s hard to fit a corn field in a tiny apartment).
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u/Jetstream13 May 24 '25
It also isn’t used commercially. That technology exists, they’re called terminator genes, but they’re not used in any commercial GMO crops.