Oilseed rape is a cultivated cross between a weed called wild mustard, or Brassica campestris, and Brassica oleracea, the cabbage plant.
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In the springtime, the meadows of the Middle Valley show off an array of wildflowers : California Poppies, Suncups, Buttercups, Wild Radish and Wild Mustard.
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He explained that the wild mustard plant Idahoa scapigera, also known as flatpod, bears a very close resemblance to the genetically engineered version of its relative, Arabidopsis.
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And although GM canola, or oilseed rape, is related to wild mustard, the only spread of genes so far has been to commercial non-GM rape, especially in Canada.
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Just behind our perch was Bob Walker Ridge, with long-distance views in all directions, while the foothills were sprinkled with color from blooming buttercups, red maids and wild mustard.
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He says that even if wild mustard, a hardy weed found throughout the South, acquires the new genes through pollination, it would not confer any competitive advantage over natural weeds.
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Danish researchers say tests show that genetically modified commercial oilseed rape, or canola, can pass herbicide resistance to closely related weeds in the wild mustard family in a single growing season.
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However, he said that scientists had known that genes from modified plants would travel to nearby fields, citing recent evidence that genes from bioengineered canola grown in Canada moved into wild mustard.
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The gently undulating meadows of wild mustard are empty, save for clusters of white stones marking where Indian warriors cut down Gen . George Armstrong Custer's 225 troops to a man in less than two hours.
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Most of the brush on the slopes of the nonprofit Theodore Payne Foundation are wild mustard and foxtails, plants that at this time of the year are more parched than a throat after a long, waterless walk in Death Valley.
