Ignacio Chapela explains why his 2001 paper on the flow of transgenes into wild maize populations met with fierce opposition. (Time: 14:02)
Ignacio Chapela, a microbial ecologist and mycologist at the University of California-Berkeley, explains why his paper on the flow of transgenes into wild maize populations met with fierce opposition when published in 2001 in Nature. This interview was held on 27th March 2014 in Brussels at the Kaaitheater, where Ignacio Chapela spoke at the conference entitled 'The Promised Land of Transgenic Crops', opening the Burning Ice #7 festival.