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14. SIGMEA is providing the scientific community as well as decision-makers with adequate information about gene flow and its implications in terms of coexistence.

To date, SIGMEA partners have published more than 100 refereed papers on issues associated with gene flow, coexistence and gene detection and further papers are being submitted for publication. In addition, SIGMEA contributed to book chapters on GMO issues, European and National government reports and public debates. 

 
SIGMEA was very directly involved in the organization of the conferences on coexistence (GMCC05 in Montpellier, GMCC07 in Seville and GMCC09 in Melbourn, see http://www.coexistence-conference.org). At GMCC07 there were 17 oral presentations by SIGMEA partners including papers summarising scientific knowledge on gene flow in maize, oilseed rape and sugar beet from the SIGMEA data sets and other papers reporting findings from SIGMEA studies. There were also 24 poster presentations.

13 PhD theses and 5 Masters were submitted during the period of the project. SIGMEA partners were also involved in events related to communication to extension services and farmers as well as in public debates, press articles, radio/TV interviews. To date, SIGMEA partners have published more than 100 refereed papers on issues associated with gene flow, coexistence and gene detection and further papers are being submitted for publication. In addition, SIGMEA contributed to book chapters on GMO issues, European and National government reports and public debates. 

SIGMEA was very directly involved in the organization of the conferences on coexistence (GMCC05 in Montpellier, GMCC07 in Seville and GMCC09 in Melbourn, see http://www.coexistence-conference.org). At GMCC07 there were 17 oral presentations by SIGMEA partners including papers summarising scientific knowledge on gene flow in maize, oilseed rape and sugar beet from the SIGMEA data sets and other papers reporting findings from SIGMEA studies. There were also 24 poster presentations.

13 PhD theses and 5 Masters were submitted during the period of the project. SIGMEA partners were also involved in events related to communication to extension services and farmers as well as in public debates, press articles, radio/TV interviews. 


Selected SIGMEA references:

Allnutt T.R., Dwyer M., McMillan J., Henry C., Langrell S.R.H. (2008). Sampling and Modelling for Quantification of Field GM Geneflow.J. Agric. Food Chem., 56 (9), pp 3232–3237

 

Bitocchi E., Nanni L., Rossi M., Rau D., Bellucci E., Giardini A., Buonamici A., Vendramin G.G., Papa R. (2009) Introgression from modern hybrid varieties into landrace populations of maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.) in central Italy. Molecular Ecology 18, 603–621 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.04064.x

Bohanec M., Messéan A., Angevin F., Žnidaršič, (2007). SMAC advisor: a decision-support tool on maize co-existence. Third International Conference on Coexistence between GM and non-GM Agricultural Supply Chains (GMCC-07), Seville 20-21 November 2007, pp 119-122.

Bohanec M., Messéan A., Scatasta S., Angevin F., Griffiths B., Krogh P. H., Žnidaršič M., Džeroski S. (2008). A Qualitative Multi-Attribute Model for Economic and Ecological Assessment of Genetically Modified Crops. Ecological Modelling, 215:247-261.

Breckling B., Reuter H. (2007). Analysis of neighborhood relations for the monitoring of  genetically modified organisms: Steps from local scale to the regional scale, Journal of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, J. Verbr. Lebensm. 2 Supplement 1: 59 – 61

Castellazzi, M.S., Perry, J.N., Colbach, N., Monod, H., Adamczyk, K., Viaud, V. & Conrad, K.F. (2007) New measures and tests of temporal and spatial pattern of crops in agricultural landscapes. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 118, 339-349.

Castellazzi, M.S., Wood G.A., Burgess P.J., Morris J., Conrad K.F., Perry, J.N. (2008). A systematic representation of crop rotations. Agricultural Systems, Volume 97, Issues 1-2, April 2008, Pages 26-33

Colbach, N., Durr, C., Gruber, S., Pekrun, C., (2008). Modelling the seed bank evolution and emergence of oilseed rape volunteers for managing co-existence of GM and non-GM varieties. European Journal of Agronomy,   Volume: 28   Issue: 1   Pages: 19-32

Demont M., Daems W., Dillen K., Mathijs E., Sausse C., Tollens E., (2008). Regulating coexistence in Europe: beware of the domino-effect! Ecological Economics, Volume 64, Issue 4, 1 February 2008, Pages 683-689

Gomez-Barbero M., Berbel J., Rodríguez-Cerezo E., (2008). Corn in Spain: the performance of the first EU GM crop. Nature Biotechnology 26 384-386 (31 Mar 2008) doi: 10.1038/nbt0408-384

Hüsken A, Dietz-Pfeilstetter A (2007) Pollen mediated intraspecific gene flow from herbicide resistant oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.). Transgenic Research 16, 557-569 doi: 10.1007/s11248-007-9078-y

Messeguer J, Peñas G, Ballester J, Bas M, Serra J, Salvia J, Palaudelmàs M and Melé E (2006) Pollen-mediated gene flow in maize in real situations of coexistence. Plant Biotechnology Journal 4, 633-645

Viaud V., Monod H., Lavigne C., Angevin F., Adamczyk K., (2008). Spatial sensitivity of maize gene-flow from genetically modified to conventional varieties to landscape pattern: a simulation approach. Landscape Ecology, Volume: 23   Issue: 9   Pages: 1067-1079
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Writing: A. Messéan (INRA)
Creation date: 26 May 2009
Update: 28 May 2009