WHILE other food crops have faced considerable hurdles in both public and industry acceptance of genetically modified products, the ”GM bogey man” has seemingly not raised his head when it comes to bananas. [...] ”We’ve had no push back at all, which has been wonderful,” [Prof James Dale] said. In January last year, the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator authorised the QUT’s application for controlled release of 151 lines of genetically modified banana at Litchfield Municipality, Northern Territory.