ReviewGM crops & food2014
Transgene flow: facts, speculations and possible countermeasures.
Review in GM crops & food, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Scientists' warning on genetic pollution.Discover conservation · 2025Review
- Targeting vacuolar ATPase in tobacco whitefly,Journal of biosciences · 2025Review
- Evaluating the probability of CRISPR-based gene drive contaminating another species.Evolutionary applications · 2020Article
- The application of gene splitting technique for controlling transgene flow in rice.Transgenic research · 2020Article
- Transgene Biocontainment Strategies for Molecular Farming.Frontiers in plant science · 2020Review
- Plant Biosystems Design Research Roadmap 1.0.Biodesign research · 2020Review
- Overexpressing Exogenous 5-Enolpyruvylshikimate-3-Phosphate Synthase (EPSPS) Genes Increases Fecundity and Auxin Content of Transgenic Arabidopsis Plants.Frontiers in plant science · 2018Article
- "Born to Run"? Not Necessarily: Species and Trait Bias in Persistent Free-Living Transgenic Plants.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2018Article
- Evolutionary and social consequences of introgression of nontransgenic herbicide resistance from rice to weedy rice in Brazil.Evolutionary applications · 2016Review
- Consumer acceptance of food crops developed by genome editing.Plant cell reports · 2016Article
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Abstract
Convincing evidence has accumulated that unintended transgene escape occurs in oilseed rape, maize, cotton and creeping bentgrass. The escaped transgenes are found in variant cultivars, in wild type plants as well as in hybrids of sexually compatible species. The fact that in some cases stacked events are present that have not been planted commercially, implies unintended recombination of transgenic traits. As the consequences of this continuous transgene escape for the ecosystem cannot be reliably predicted, I propose to use more sophisticated approaches of gene technology in future. If possible GM plants should be constructed using either site-directed mutagenesis or cisgenic strategies to avoid the problem of transgene escape. In cases where a transgenic trait is needed, efficient containment should be the standard approach. Various strategies available or in development are discussed. Such a cautious approach in developing novel types of GM crops will enhance the sustainable potential of GM crops and thus increase the public trust in green gene technology.
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