data from a three‐location× 3‐yr field experiment on transgene flow to common rice cultivars
(Oryza sativa), male sterile (ms) lines (O. sativa) and common wild rice (Oryza rufipogon),
and (iii) 32‐yr historical meteorological data collected from 38 meteorological stations in
southern China during the rice flowering period.• The concept of the gene flow coefficient
(GFC) is proposed; that is, the ratio of the transgene flow frequency (G%) obtained from field …