A direct regional scale estimate of transgene movement from genetically modified oilseed rape to its wild progenitors

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 983-991

  Wilkinson, M J ^a,b   Davenport, I J ^a   Charters, Y M ^a   Jones, A E ^a   Allainguillaume, J ^a   Butler, H T ^a   Mason, D C ^a   Raybould, A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

B. oleracea; B. rapa; Brassica napus; Gene flow; GM risk assessment; Transgene introgression

Indexed keywords

BRASSICA RAPA; GENE FLOW; GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROP; HYBRID; SYMPATRY; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; UNITED KINGDOM; WILD RELATIVE;

BRASSICA; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, PLANT; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GEOGRAPHY; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLOIDIES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENES;

BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA OLERACEA; BRASSICA RAPA;

EID: 0033927205     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2000.00986.x     Document Type: Article

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