• There is a danger that traits important to indigenous farmers (resistance to drought, competitive ability, performance on intercrops, storage quality, etc) could be traded for transgenic qualities that may not be important to them (Jordan 2001).

• Field trials are currently underway in Mexico to test transgenic wheat (with the Arabidopsis DREB1A under the control of rd29A) that has a more branched root phenotype and developed more ears under drought stress than control lines under greenhouse conditions.

• For example, attempts by independent groups to repeat the findings of de la Fuente et al. (1997) were unsuccessful despite using identical constructs and increasing the citrate synthase activity in transgenic tobacco lines to similar, or even greater levels, than those published originally (Delhaize et al. 2001; Jian Feng Ma, pers.