GM wheat about to be planted in western Victoria Wednesday, 9 July 2008 10:28:35 AM
Genetically-modified wheat will be planted in Victoria's Wimmera Mallee within the next three weeks.
The Federal gene technology regulator approved the trials, which are the second part of a project looking at drought-tolerant wheat.
Victoria's Department of Primary Industries completed Stage One last year, and found that some GM varieties yielded 20 per cent more than non-GM wheat.
The DPI's Germann Spangenberg hopes to see those types of results again this time.
"So it'll be a controlled release of up to 50 GM wheat lines, all of those modified individually with single genes, with a total of 15 genes being tested."
