Biology 3rd Edition by Peter Russell, Paul Hertz, Beverly McMillan

Exercise 1

Suppose a biotechnology company has developed a GMO, a transgenic plant that expresses Bt toxin.The company sells its seeds to a farmer under the condition that the farmer may plant the seed, but not collect seed from the plants that grow and use it to produce crops in the subsequent season.The seeds are expensive, and the farmer buys seeds from the company only once.How could the company show experimentally that the farmer has violated the agreement and is using seeds collected from the first crop to grow the next crop?