Transgenes migrate into old races of maize.(discovery in corn grown in Mexico)(Brief Article)

From: Science News | Date: December 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

On multiple occasions, genes from new-fangled corn produced via bioengineering have slipped into the traditional races of maize grown in southern Mexico.

That's one of the conclusions of the first scientific paper documenting transgenic corn leaking genes into old maize varieties. Such leaks seem "relatively common," report David Quist and Ignacio H. Chapela of the University of California, Berkeley in the Nov. 29 NATURE.

Concerned by early results of this study, the Mexican government investigated. In mid-September, it announced finding bits of a distinctive transgene ...

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