Overexpression of epsps transgene in weedy rice: insufficient evidence to support speculations about biosafety

Affiliations

• ¹ Plant Sciences Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel.
• ² Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA.
• ³ Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, 1101 K Street NW Suite 610, Washington, DC, 20005, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DK-2630, Taastrup, Denmark.
• ⁶ Department of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences, University of Arkansas, 1366 W. Altheimer Drive, Fayetteville, AR, 72704, USA.
• ⁷ Institute of Molecular Plant Science, The University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JH, UK.
• ⁸ Crop Science Department, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, 7712 Bento Goncalves Ave, Porto Alegre, RS 91501-970, Brazil.
• ⁹ Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3RB, UK.
• ¹⁰ University of Bern, Monruz 20, 2000, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
• ¹¹ King's College, University of London, London, SE1 9NH, UK.
• ¹² Department Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 29634-0318, USA.