biotech pays well and is a very new field so that industry will be hiring for the forseeable future
as for the GMO plants, hmm well the question i have as a qualified person is; how much THC production can a plant (any plant) handle without wrecking the it's metabolisim? producing too much of anything can lead to death. the process of gene targeting has been around afew years and the genes relevent for THC production (i say production and not expression because THC is not a protien and only protiens are expressed) have no doubt been sequenced, targeted, isolated and stored in a vector somewhere, im no expert on plant biotechnology,in all i have learned, i have used either microbial or mammalian cell lines where plasmids, cosmids and YACs ect. are used not agrobacterium, however im sure the principle of transformation/transfection in plants is quite similar. ill do my best to answer some questions if ye have any?
Would something like putting a GFP into a plant be pretty easy to accomplish at home?
