Talk:Ecological effects of transgenic plants

Source - a college paper?

This looks like someone transferred in a favorite paper - but article creation info doesn't appear on the history (User:Petaholmes evidently split the article in two- see Transgenic plants). I did a little work on the intro, topic sentences and the formating. The "royal we" needs to be removed, as well as a number of other presentation quirks. Some POV, but pretty mild. I think shortening the article as a whole might also be a good idea. I'll pick at the copy as I find the time. Comments welcome. WBardwin 03:28, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

There is no evidence that MOST of trangenic plants easily hybridize with wild relatives- overwhelming majority of transgenic crop under cultivation is made up by maize, soybean, cotton and rapeseed. Maize does not even have a known wild relative. The closest is teosinte in central america, hybrids are usually infertile. soybean is selfpolinating, so is cotton. In cotton there is compatibility of some cultivated cultivars with some of the wild relatives, but at the same time there are considerable geographic distances between them. so rapeseed is the MOST? On the other hand its very likely to see exchange of genes between some transgenic crop and their non-trangenic coounter-parts. Xmort 04:48, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)