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Outcrossing rates within the wild green foxtail, Setaria viridis, and the cultivated foxtail millet, S. italica, are very low. However, spontaneous interspecific hybridizations in the experimental garden occurred in both directions at rates ranging from 0.002% to 0.6% according to plant density and distance between parents. Offtypes found in farmers' fields where foxtail millet is cultivated were shown to have originated from such interspecific crosses. Differences in the EcoR1 patterns of chloroplast DNA between cultivated and wild plants indicated that reciprocal crosses do occur in the field. These findings indicate that even a largely selfing cultivated species may exchange genetic information with wild relatives at rates that may cause problems if transgenic cultivars are released.
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Till-Bottraud, I., Reboud, X., Brabant, P. et al. Outcrossing and hybridization in wild and cultivated foxtail millets: consequences for the release of transgenic crops. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 83, 940–946 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00232954
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