New study will lead to more resilient and nutritious edible crops

Um... really?

New University of Adelaide research has reveal for the first time exactly how plants protect themselves from elements such as boric acid, which in soils at high concentration becomes toxic to plants.

Source - user link on phys.org

Duh, right?

This discovery could contribute to making better, safer genetically-modified crops. I've had a few reservations about GMOs; not because they are inherently unsafe but because Monsanto has a monopoly on them and abuses their patents. I'm also not certain if Glyphosate is safe to ingest.

It's interesting how quantum tunneling plays into how the plants guard against boric acid. It'll be good to see how this knowledge is applied in new GMO seeds.

Hell, I don't know what to believe on the GMO thing. My guess that most of it's safe but those pesticides aren't.

The only way we're going to know for sure is if we eat them for decades and decades and then see what the long term effects are.

There's pseudoscience about how GMOs cause cancer but that's turned out to be a very unscientific set of studies. I can't blame you for not trusting Monsanto - they've got a lot of their own people in the FDA - but outside of the pesticide thing (do the crops absorb or contain the pesticides? I don't know) they seem ok.

If you're referring to the study with the rats with lots of tumors, that study was invalidated. The rats used had an abnormally high rate of developing tumors on their own.