18.06.2003 |

GM seeds `spread by human activity'

Seeds may be a bigger danger than pollen in allowing GM crops to escape into the countryside.Seeds can be carried long distances on farm machinery to cross with wild relatives, a French study has found.Seeds can be spread in soil on farm machinerGenes from commercial sugar beet turned up in wild plants growing more than 1.5 kilometres away, according to scientists at Lille University. The study, published in a journal of the Royal Society, comes as a nationwide debate on GM crops takes place in the UK.</p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2998000.stm">BBC report</a></p><p><a href="http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/templates/press/showpresspage.cfm?file=461.txt">Royal Society press release</a></p><p><a href="http://de.news.yahoo.com/030618/295/3hxwo.html">Gensaat wird durch Menschen verteilt</a></p><p><a href="http://www.zs-l.de/gmo/news/Arnaud_evidence for gene flow.pdf">Download stduy of Prof. Arnaud:_evidence for gene flow in beta vulgaris</a>