Brazil to test GM energy tree that grows 30% faster

A Brazilian pulp and paper maker is seeking approval to test its fast growing transgenic Eucalypt tree.

Bloomberg: 9 December 2011

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Unless this tree was sterile I can’t see it ever being approved for Australia (assuming it works as claimed and is approved in Brazil). Eucalypts are introduced species and considered weeds in many parts of South America. In Australia, if such a trait was transferred to native Eucalypts there would undoubtedly be environmental consequences. And from a personal perspective, I don’t have sufficient information from the Bloomberg report to know the full story, but I am skeptical of the transgenic tree’s long-term use as a biofuel