Traditional Mexican agricultural systems and the potential impacts of transgenic varieties on maize diversity
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ArticleLanguage: English Publication details: Netherlands : Springer, 2006.ISSN: - 1572-8366 (Online)
- 0889-048X
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Article | CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library | CIMMYT Staff Publications Collection | CIS-4723 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 634062 |
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The discovery of transgenes in maize landraces in Mexico, a center of diversity for this crop, raises questions about the potential impact of transgene diffusion on maize diversity. The concept of diversity and farmers’ role in maintaining diversity is quite complex. Farmers’ behavior is expected to have a significant influence on causing transgenes to diffuse, to be expressed differently, and to accumulate within landraces. Farmers’ or consumers’ perceptions that transgenes are “contaminants” and that landraces containing transgenes are “contaminated” could cause these landraces to be rejected and trigger a direct loss of diversity.
Socioeconomics Program
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