Suspect evidence of transgenic contamination (see editorial footnote)
- 4 April 2002
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 416 (6881) , 600-601
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nature738
Abstract
Quist and Chapela1 claim that transgenic DNA constructs have been introgressed into a traditional maize variety in Mexico, and furthermore suggest that these constructs have been reassorted and introduced into different genomic backgrounds. However, we show here that their evidence for such introgression is based on the artefactual results of a flawed assay; in addition, the authors misinterpret a key reference2 to explain their results, concluding that reassortment of integrated transgenic DNA occurs during transformation or recombination.Keywords
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