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How does scientific risk assessment of GM crops fit within the wider risk analysis? by Johnson, Katy L., Raybould, Alan F., Hudson, Malcolm D., Poppy, Guy M.

“…The debate concerning genetically modified crops illustrates confusion between the role of scientists and that of wider society in regulatory decision making…”
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Confidence Limits for Regression Relationships between Distance Matrices: Estimating Gene Flow with Distance by Clarke, Ralph T., Rothery, Peter, Raybould, Alan F.

“…There is growing interest in assessing relationships between two or more distance matrices, where distances are based on genetic, geographical, and/or…”
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Biofortified sorghum in Africa: using problem formulation to inform risk assessment by Raybould, Alan F, Hokanson, Karen E, Ellstrand, Norman C, Ouedraogo, Jeremy T, Schaal, Barbara A, Olweny, Patrick A

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Glucosinolates and differential herbivory in wild populations of Brassica oleracea by MOYES, Catherine L, COLLIN, Hamish A, BRITTON, George, RAYBOULD, Alan F

“…Glucosinolates are known to elicit responses from Brassica herbivores in laboratory studies. To study their importance in interactions with herbivores in the…”
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Do hornets have zombie workers? by Foster, Kevin R., Ratnieks, Francis L. W., Raybould, Alan F.

“…Colonies of the European hornet, Vespa crabro, are typically founded by a single queen mated to a single male. From the resulting colony relatedness pattern we…”
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Reducing transgene escape routes by Gray, Alan J, Raybould, Alan F

“…In this month's issues of "Nature Biotechnology" an article reports a development that has profound implications for the risk assessment of genetically…”
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Response to Bagavathiannan and Van Acker's "Transgenes and national boundaries - The need for international regulations": Biotechnology developers and regulators already consider transgene movement across national boundaries and the environmental risks posed by adventitious presence of unapproved events are overstated by Nickson, Thomas E, Raybould, Alan F

“…Bagavathiannan and Van Acker propose greater international cooperation and information sharing in risk assessment for biotechnology-derived crops because…”
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Transgenes and agriculture – going with the flow? by Raybould, Alan F

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Analysis of genetic structure and dispersal patterns in a population of sea beet by Tufto, J. (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.), Raybould, A.F, Hindar, K, Engen, S

“…A model of the migration pattern in a metapopulation of sea beet (Beta vulgaris L. ssp. maritima), based on the continuous distributions of seed and pollen…”
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Transferability and genome specificity of a new set of microsatellite primers among Brassica species of the U triangle by Lowe, Andrew J., Jones, Alexandra E., Raybould, Alan F., Trick, Martin, Moule, Carolyn L., Edwards, Keith J.

“…We present a new set of 12 highly polymorphic simple sequence repeat primer sequences for use with Brassica species. These new primers, and four from A.K.S…”
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Specialised population of Claviceps purpurea from salt marsh Spartina species by PAŽOUTOVÁ, Sylvie, RAYBOULD, Alan F., HONZÁTKO, Aleš, KOLÍNSKÁ, Rena´ta

“…The Claviceps purpurea population colonising British Spartina salt marsh stands is characterised by unusually long cylindrical conidia (average 9·5–12 μm) and…”
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Crop genetics Reducing transgene escape routes by Gray, Alan J, Raybould, Alan F

“…Genetically modified crops and the food derived from them have had a bad press, but a rare piece of good news is provided by Daniell et al. in this month's…”
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