But it will hopefully provide us with an opportunity to create safety standards and safety procedures, which are more realistic and which are not preventing future research and development in genetic engineering. It should not be denied that novel genes can create novel risks, but there are strong hopes that new procedures of risk assessment should enable us to distinguish between factual and potential risks of vertical gene flow in general. He is also opposing a direct comparison between natural mutants obtained through classical breeding and transgenic plants. Measuring gene flow by means of paternity analysis is shown by Adams et al. Again, we realise the full complexity of the topic of vertical gene flow.
Biotechnology is unlikely to turn it into a locally ecologically vigorous organism.
Still, domestication should not be the miracle key word for safety of any transgenic crop, a careful long term monitoring should be undertaken in order to determine the factual risks. Bartsch et al. He postulates experiments in confined and open systems within the framework of long term monitoring on the basis of scientific criteria. It is true that from modelling, one can learn a great deal, but findings remain inconclusive. Only in rare cases is there a possibility for true causal analysis.