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Scottish researchers studied for three years the likelihood that transgenes that confer tolerance to the herbicide glufosinate would move into wild populations of the crop and influence survival of those populations. They monitored airborne pollen densities at up to 2.5 km from oilseed rape fields. Densities of pollen at 360 m were 10-12 percent those at the field margin, and low densities of pollen were consistently observed at 1.5-2.5 km. ...