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Title: Transgenic crops get a test in the wild

Journal Article · · Science (Washington, D.C.); (United States)

A novel British research program called PROSAMO - Planned Release of Selected and Modified Organisms - has just produced its first batch of results on the ecological behavior of a genetically manipulated variety of oil seed rape (known to Americans as canola). As expected, the preliminary data indicate that these plants do not outgrow their competitors in the wild, nor is there any evidence that they pass on their foreign genes to other species. PROSAMO is moving on to test other crops with other foreign genes. If these results are as reassuring, scientists around the world will have solid evidence with which to soothe fears.

OSTI ID:
5604983
Journal Information:
Science (Washington, D.C.); (United States), Vol. 251:4996; ISSN 0036-8075
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English