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German GM research—a personal account

Nature Biotechnology volume 27, pages 318–319 (2009)Cite this article

To the Editor:

As a junior scientist in Germany working for nearly 6 years on biosafety research, I wholeheartedly agree with the correspondence in your September issue from Henry Miller, which lamented the decision of the president of Justus Liebig University in Giessen for having pressured his faculty to cease field experiments on genetically modified (GM) corn1. I would like to share with your readers some of my personal experience—working as I have on the potential impact of the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn cultivars on arthropod nontarget organisms—on the issues Miller so frankly addresses.

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I receive grant money from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research as the coordinator of a national consortium assessing the potential environmental impacts of Bt-maize MON89034 □ MON88017. My position is completely funded via the grant.

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