Despite numerous future promises, there is a multitude of concerns about the impact of GM
crops on the environment. Key issues in the environmental assessment of GM crops are …

Discussions of the environmental risks and benefits of adopting genetically engineered
organisms are highly polarized between pro-and anti-biotechnology groups, but the current …

In Alien Species and Evolution, biologist George W. Cox reviews and synthesizes emerging
information on the evolutionary changes that occur in plants, animals, and microbial …

Wild relatives of genetically engineered crops can acquire transgenic traits such as
herbicide resistance via spontaneous crop–wild hybridization. In agricultural weeds …

One of the concerns raised over the introduction of genetically modified crops is that
transgenes will invade populations of wild relatives, causing ecologically significant …

The development of transgenic plants has heightened concern about the possible escape of
genetically engineered material into the wild. Hybridization between crops and their wild …

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 …

Farmland biodiversity and food webs were compared in conventional and genetically
modified herbicide–tolerant (GMHT) crops of beet (Beta vulgaris L.), maize (Zea mays L.) …

Structural, energetic, biochemical, and ecological information suggests that germination
temperature is an important selective agent causing seed oils of higher-latitude plants to …

Due to increasing problems occurring from massive applications of pesticides, such as
insect resistance to pesticides, the use of biotechnological tools to minimize losses from …