A Little Pollen Goes a Long Way
- 28 June 2002
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 296 (5577) , 2314
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.296.5577.2314a
Abstract
A comprehensive study, described on page 2386, provides some hard numbers on the movement of pollen between fields, with implications for regulators of genetically modified (GM) crops. Ecologists report that canola pollen can travel considerable distances but that the amount of gene flow is minimal. Although the findings reinforce the difficulty of growing GM-free crops, they also suggest that the levels of gene diffusion are below European standards for contamination of conventional food.Keywords
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