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26-04-2003, 12:25 PM

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Oz wrote:

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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.

Corn can travel in ships across the Atlantic, the Pacific or the Indian Ocean.

1) Not seed corn. That would be restricted.
2) Please inform me of the last time europe shipped maize to the
americas?

Further GM corn was being grown in mexico, so little need to 'travel

This corn was exported legally from the USA to Mexico. Was supposed to
be milled but ended up in mexican markets.

The scientific american article said it was commercial seed from some
distance away (about 10km IIRC).

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.

Any pig virus genes found naturally in teocinte?

Any pig virus genes in commercial cultivars?
Would teosinte care? Probably not.
It's been dealing with new genes for millennia.

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