Suspect evidence of transgenic contamination (see editorial footnote)

Matthew Metz () and Johannes Fütterer
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Matthew Metz: University of Washington
Johannes Fütterer: Institute of Plant Sciences, ETH

Nature, 2002, vol. 416, issue 6881, 600-601

Abstract: Abstract Quist and Chapela1 claim that transgenic DNA constructs have been introgressed into a traditional maize variety in Mexico, and furthermore suggest that these constructs have been reassorted and introduced into different genomic backgrounds. However, we show here that their evidence for such introgression is based on the artefactual results of a flawed assay; in addition, the authors misinterpret a key reference2 to explain their results, concluding that reassortment of integrated transgenic DNA occurs during transformation or recombination.

Date: 2002
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