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Dear Mrs. E.Alvarez-Buylla,
I was trying to research the previous events of identified contaminated local crops because of GM crop cultivation since it started to be a coming thread in our country either.
Appearently there are a lot of events in recent years, but it was so surprising for me when I hit one of the work done by Dr. Ignacio Chapela about contamination of indigenous Mexican maize with GMOs in 2001.
Actually I hit this work from an article "Genetically modified plants and human health" published at Journal of Royal Society of Medicine. It is simply discrediting Mr.Chapela's work. I found a very strange and quite terrible story when I dug a little bit. It was also mentioning about your joint work and publication named as "Transgenes in Mexican maize: molecular evidence and methodological considerations for GMO detection in landrace populations".
Within the strange story, it states on behalf of you that;
"We battled for two years to get the results of our study published," declares Mrs. Alvarez-Buylla. "In the course of my entire career, I have never encountered so many difficulties!"
It is not needed to be the exact phrase, but my understanding from the statement is, somebody created difficulties for you to prevent publishing your study because of the it's content which is supporting the results of Dr.Chapela's initial work.
So my question is, was that correct? Did somebody tried to prevent publishing the study? Were they biotech companies or their affiliates who wants hide of such contamination or something else?
By the way, I'm not an expert but I do congratulate you and your friends for the very valuable study which gives me enough indication about such a contamination potential.
Thank you in advance.
Yours sincerely
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Bu mesajda kısaca prof. Alvarez Buylla'ya çalışmalarını yayınlarken engel ile karşılaşıp karşılaşmadıklarını sormuştum.
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Yes, our paper was rejected from several J including PNAS.
What do you do?
elena
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Böyle bir yanıt geldi. Buna göre bilimsel yayın bir çok PNAS da dahil olmak üzere bir çok bilimsel basın tarafından reddedilmiş.
Taa ki yayınlanıncaya kadar. Böylelikle GDO mısırın çevreyi ve endemik bitkileri kirlettiğini bir süre daha saklamaya çalışmışlar.
Prof. Elena Alvarez Boylle
Ekoloji Enstitüsü
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