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Scalable Transfection of Maize Mesophyll Protoplasts
Published on: June 23, 2023
Gene flow scenarios with transgenic maize in Mexico
José-Antonio Serratos-Hernández1, Fabián Islas-Gutiérrez, Enrique Buendía-Rodríguez
1Campo Experimental Valle de Mexico, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales Agrícolas y Pecuarias, Mexico. aserratos@cgiar.org
Abstract:
Maize diversity is widespread in Mexico and it has been stewarded by campesinos in small communities until the present. With the arrival of transgenic maize, the objective of this study is to analyze possible scenarios that could result if genetically modified maize were not regulated and openly available in Mexico. By applying a simple logistic model based on the conditions of maize production in Mexico, the dispersion of transgenic maize in different situations within fields of farmers is described. In traditional open systems of freely exchanged seed within communities it is concluded that the most likely outcome of GM maize release is the incorporation of transgenes in the genome of Mexican germplasm and possibly in that of teosinte.
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