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Nature 421, 785-786 (20 February 2003) | doi:10.1038/421785c
Gene flow might turn wimps into superweeds
Norris Muth1
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1610, USA
Your News story "Transgenic crop trial's gene flow turns weeds into wimps" (Nature 421, 462; 2003) highlights the suggestion that gene flow between transgenic crops and potential weeds can act to lessen the latter's negative effects on important crop plants.The researchers, Neal Stewart and colleagues, seem to reach this conclusion on the basis of short-term results consisting of a decreased negative effect of initial hybrid weeds on wheat yield when compared to the effects of non-hybrid weeds.
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