The gmo revolution book read 2 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers will gm crops banish world hunger noare gm crops the only s. Europe also has to face up to the fact that the gm revolution in plant breeding happened and it happened quite a long time ago gm is not new its 20th century technology. Through gm technology the sweet peppers resistance to fungi can be transferred to tomatoes without altering the other characteristics of the tomato cultivar result the tomato plant is able to protect itself and fungicides no longer need to be sprayed the gmo revolution is not about the controversy surrounding gmos. After the green revolution in the 1960s multinational corporations have taken over major crop commodity seed development production and distribution an activity formerly dominated by public sector plant breeding seed corporations have quickly increased their market share dalle mulle and ruppanner 2010 le buanec 2008