26-04-2003, 12:25 PM
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Greed driving plant science
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Oz wrote:
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However maize in europe has no species to x-breed with, so it's not
an issue.
They thought the same in USA. The GM corn ended up in México.
Corn can travel across continents, and does so regularly.
You may not have noticed, but there is something called 'the atlantic'
between europe and mexico whilst there is nothing but a bit of barbed
wire between the US and mexico.
Further GM corn was being grown in mexico, so little need to 'travel
across continents'. IIRC in the quoted work it merely had to travel a
few tens of km.
What it does show, though, is that genes from modern cultivars of maize
will affect 'legacy' maize, and presumably has been doing so for many
decades.
Teosinte, of course, is known to have been x-breeding with maize for
several millennia. It hasn't changed much though, nor have the
brassicae-rape hybrids, they still look just the same.
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Oz
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