Mexico: Traces of GM maize confirmed

Scientists at Mexico City University have detected transgenic DNA sequences in Mexican maize samples from the years 2001 to 2004, thereby conf… more

Bt maize pollen: a threat to nature reserves?

According to Germany’s Berliner Zeitung newspaper, in the future the German state of Brandenburg is to specify a minimum separation dist… more

Tortilla crisis in Mexico: Could GM maize be the answer?

In Mexico maize is becoming scarce and the price of tortillas, the staple food in Mexico, has risen dramatically. While the population is demo… more

“GM maize” disappeared –- Questions still remain

Genetically modified maize is apparently no longer growing in Mexico. This is the surprising finding of a study by a six-strong team of resear… more

A threat to biological diversity?

In November 2001 the renowned scientific journal Nature published a short article: two Californian scientists had been studying maize from … more

Bt-maize in Mexico: Questions remain

The incrossing of foreign genes from genetically modified plants to local native varieties and wild plants has become a key focus of safety re… more

Bt maize and outcrossing: The flight of the pollen cloud

Squelch, squelch, squelch: a small group of researchers and their visitors, trudge across the sodden trial field near Braunschweig. Less th… more

Out-crossing from transgenic maize and quantifying outcrossing rates

(1999 – 2002) Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry (BBA) (sice 2008 Julius Kühn Institute (JKI)), Institute f… more