deaves provided some two million euros of funding for the project the biggest challenge was actually proving that there were tried parental plant scientists employed a genetic trick. they disconnected two gene elements that are necessary to confer herbicide resistance and introduce them separately into two different plants. then they collected pollen from that father number one and father number two and used it to pollinate the flower of a third mother plant in the by paternal seedlings with the contributions from both fathers the resistance gene is activated meaning they can survive treatment with herbicide the mana paternal ones cannot clear evidence that there are plants that have two fathers. we've examined over half a million progeny to determine if they have two or three parents solved we've established that plants rarely have three parents. using that only one in ten thousand in fact. isn't. the discovery of these natural anomalies could prove highly useful in the agricultural industry three parent plant breeding has the potential to give rise to new plant lines with more chro