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2007-05-25 | permalink
Pollen-mediated gene flow from GE sorghum expected to be extensive
In their recent ISB News Report article about transgenic sorghum, Visarada and Kishore (2007) provide incomplete information about the likelihood that transgenes would spread to wild relatives of the crop. [...] However, by citing only a single reference ... they give the impression that crop-to-wild gene flow will not occur ... Contrary to this citation, many other studies show that pollen- and seed-mediated gene flow to wild and weedy relatives of sorghum is expected to be extensive ...
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2007-05-25 | permalink
Pollen-mediated gene flow from GE sorghum expected to be extensive
In their recent ISB News Report article about transgenic sorghum, Visarada and Kishore (2007) provide incomplete information about the likelihood that transgenes would spread to wild relatives of the crop. [...] However, by citing only a single reference ... they give the impression that crop-to-wild gene flow will not occur ... Contrary to this citation, many other studies show that pollen- and seed-mediated gene flow to wild and weedy relatives of sorghum is expected to be extensive ...
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