Risks of escape and spread of engineered genes from transgenic crops to wild relatives. Arriola, P., E. BINAS Online, 9(3):157N-160N, 1997.
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Crop plants sown near populations of wild or weedy relatives are capable of gene exchange via pollen transfer. Historically, there has been concern over the possible contamination of breeding plots from the influx of pollen from nearby crop relatives, but pollen flow from the crop to the wild populations has been of little concern. However, the advent of new genetic technologies (i.e. genetic engineering) has led to the re-examination of the significance of this pollen flow from the crop. There has been concern over the likelihood of escape of engineered genes from a cropping situation into wild/weedy populations through crop-to-weed hybridization. The long-term ecological and evolutionary significance of such mating events is generally unknown. I review the experimental literature on the likelihood of hybridization events and the potential for establishment and spread of transgenic crop/weed hybrids in natural communities.
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