A REPORT saying genetically modified maize is polluting wild maize in a remote part of Mexico is severely flawed, critics say, prompting the journal Nature to retract the article. But the report’s authors say their main conclusion has not been disproven.
Ignacio Chapela and David Quist from the University of California at Berkeley wrote the original report last year. In it they said they had found three genes typically used in GM corn in samples of wild corn from the Mexican state of Oaxaca (Nature, vol 414, p 541).
They also concluded that the introduced genes were scattered throughout…
