Challenges for transgene detection in landraces and wild relatives: learning from 15 years of debate over GM maize in Mexico

SZ Agapito-Tenfen, F Wickson - Biodiversity and conservation, 2018 - Springer
Maize is one of the world's five staple cereals and its traditional varieties constitute a global
resource critical to future agricultural development. Fifteen years ago, claims that transgenes
had spread into traditional landrace maize in Mexico started an international discussion on
the scale and significance of transgene flow from genetically modified (GM) crops to centres
of crop origin and genetic diversity. The initial discovery of transgenes in landrace maize
sparked an intense environmental dispute in which the culture and traditions of indigenous …

Challenges for transgene detection in landraces and wild relatives: learning from 15 years of debate over GM maize in Mexico

SZ Agapito, F Wickson - 2018 - norceresearch.brage.unit.no
Maize is one of the world's five staple cereals and its traditional varieties constitute a global
resource critical to future agricultural development. Fifteen years ago, claims that transgenes
had spread into traditional landrace maize in Mexico started an international discussion on
the scale and significance of transgene flow from genetically modified (GM) crops to centres
of crop origin and genetic diversity. The initial discovery of transgenes in landrace maize
sparked an intense environmental dispute in which the culture and traditions of indigenous …
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