Project Number: 3655-21000-030-00
Project Type: Appropriated

Start Date: Jan 15, 2002
End Date: Aug 31, 2006

Objective:
To determine the potential for movement of transgenes and genes between plants and to develop new technologies to control, reduce or eliminate such gene movement. To assess the flow of crop genes into wild germplasm.

Approach:
Identify and evaluate plant reproductive mechanisms that influence transgene flow between fields of transgenic and conventionally-bred crops, or that influence gene flow (transgenes or native genes) between crops and their non-cultivated relatives. Determine the frequency of occurrence of outcrossing between crop plants and their non-cultivated relatives and evaluate effects of outcrossing on the biological fitness of non-cultivated relatives for their environment. Develop and evaluate new technology (whether it be through the application of biotechnology, traditional genetics, novel crop management or other ecologically-based strategies, or all of the above) to reduce or eliminate transgene flow between fields of transgenic and conventional crops and/or gene movement between transgenic crops and their non-cultivated relatives.

Project Team

Brunet, Johanne Simon, Philipp

Project Annual Reports

FY 2003   FY 2002

Related National Programs

Plant Biological and Molecular Processes (302)

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