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> Biotech Activists (biotech_activists) Posted: 05/23/2000 By mritchie

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> Tue, 23 May 2000 07:47:43 -0800

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> Beth Burrows <beb

> Report of Gene Transfer from G-E Rapeseed to Bacteria and Fungi

> in the Gut of Bees

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> Report of Gene Transfer from

> G-E Rapeseed to Bacteria and Fungi

> in the Gut of Bees

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> "Tappeser" <tappeser

> Organization: Oeko-Institute e.V.

> Tue, 23 May 2000 15:37:25 +0100

> new stories from Germany

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> These are the latest results from risk research in Germany. You

> may distribute it because I think everybody should get to know it.

> The paper was submitted to Nature but they refused to accept it.

> Prof. Kaatz, the author, tries to publish it in another scientific

> journal. I commented on his results in television.

> Warm regards

> Beatrix Tappeser

>

> The German Television ZDF reported on Sunday May 21 that a German

> researcher found a gene transfer from genetically engineered rapeseed to

> bacteria and fungi in the gut of honey bees. Prof. Hans-Hinrich

> Kaatz from the Institut für Bienenkunde (Institute for bee research) at the

> University of Jena experimented during the last three years with

> honey bees on an experimental field with transgenic rapeseed in Saxony,

> Germany.

>

> The field trial was performed by AgrEvo, the rapeseed was

> engineered to resist the herbicide glufosinate (Liberty, Basta).

> Prof. Kaatz built nets in the field with the transgenic rapeseed and

> let the bees fly freely

> within the net. At the beehives, he installed pollen traps in order to

> sample the pollen loads from the bees´ hindlegs when entering the

> hive.

>

> This pollen was fed to young honey bees in the laboratory. (Pollen

> is the natural diet of young bees which need a high protein diet). Then

> Prof.Kaatz took the intestine out of the young bees and spread the

> contents on growth medium to grow the microorganisms.

>

> He probed the microorganisms for the pat-gene, the gene that conferes

> resistance to glufosinate. In some bacteria and also in a yeast hefound

> the pat-gene. This indicates that the gene from the genetically engineered

> rapeseed was transferred in the bee´s gut to the microbes.

>

> (Summary written by Greenpeace Germany)

>

> Dr. Beatrix Tappeser

> Institute for Applied Ecology

> Postfach 6226,

> D-79038 Freiburg

> Phone: (49)761-45295-39 or 0 Fax:(49)761-475437

> email: tappeser

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