With the advent of genetic engineering, designer crops might interbreed with natural
populations. Could such romances lead to the evolution of superweeds, as some have …

T-| r he most likely opportunity for the escape of a crop's engi-neered genes is through crop-
weed hybridization. The likelihood of such hybridization depends first on the presence of …

Crop-to-wild gene flow has received close attention over the past ten years in connection
with the development and cultivation of transgenic crops. In this paper, we review key …

It is hard to ignore the ongoing, often emotional, public discussion of the impacts of the
products of crop biotechnology. At one extreme of the hype is self-rightoeus panic, and at the …

The genetic diversity of our crop plants has been substantially reduced during the process of
domestication and breeding. This reduction in diversity necessarily constrains our ability to …

Disheartened by the shrink-wrapped, Styrofoam-packed state of contemporary supermarket
fruits and vegetables, many shoppers hark back to a more innocent time, to visions of …

Reviewing the relevant scientific and technical literature, this work summarizes the current
state-of-the-art knowledge related to gene flow and introgression (the permanent …

Transgenes engineered into annual crops could be unintentionally introduced into the
genomes of their free-living wild relatives. The fear is that these transgenes might persist in …

As the world's population rises to an expected ten billion in the next few generations, the
challenges of feeding humanity and maintaining an ecological balance will dramatically …

Engineered genes in transgenic crops may escape into the ambient environment via crop‐
weed hybridization However, natural crop‐weed muting rates (gene flow) are largely …