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Annex 2<br />

CONCLUSION (English version)<br />

In my thesis, ecological and evolutionary consequences of gene flow and introgression from<br />

transgenic oilseed rape (Brassica napus) and its wild relatives (B. juncea and Raphanus<br />

raphanistrum) were <strong>de</strong>tected, consi<strong>de</strong>ring the effects of morphological traits, interactive<br />

competition, fitness components in individual plants and population. The three effects that<br />

are discussed above in every chapter will be conclu<strong>de</strong>d integrally as follows.<br />

1. Morphological traits<br />

Generally, the hybrids show intermediate morphologic characteristics compared to their<br />

parents (Lefol et al. 1996; Choudhary et al. 2000), because the cytoplasm of crops or wilds<br />

introgress into hybrids would affect the morphology of the progeny (e.g. Lefol et al. 1996;<br />

Zhang et al. 2002; Guéritaine et al. 2002; Chang et al. 2007). The morphological traits the<br />

successive generations might be altered and even further diverge from others by the long-<br />

term introgression, which <strong>de</strong>pends on the transgenes, growth conditions and how many<br />

generations passed.<br />

Small seeds were produced by hybridization between crops and wild relatives<br />

because the effects of interaction between different genome and heterozygote in embryo<br />

limit their <strong>de</strong>velopment (Eber et al. 1994; Chadoeuf et al. 1998; Wei and Darmency 2008),<br />

and small seeds are disadvantaged in their early establishment to plants in nature (Aparicio<br />

et al. 2002; Westoby et al. 2002). In<strong>de</strong>ed, in our study, seed size significantly affected plant<br />

growth and reproduction. However, its influence on plant fitness varied among genetic<br />

backgrounds and was affected by plant <strong>de</strong>nsity and competing neighbors. The significant<br />

differences <strong>de</strong>pend also on survive strategy for <strong>de</strong>veloping, and the same species could<br />

produce small or large seeds. Small-see<strong>de</strong>d transgenic oilseed rape plants produced less<br />

seeds, lower biomass and <strong>de</strong>layed flowering than large-see<strong>de</strong>d plants. For mustard and<br />

ntrF1, small-see<strong>de</strong>d plants <strong>de</strong>layed flowering but had similar biomass and seed set<br />

compared to large-see<strong>de</strong>d ones. Small-see<strong>de</strong>d trF1 plants had the same fitness as the large-<br />

see<strong>de</strong>d trF1. These results imply that further gene flow could not be reduced by the<br />

production of small-sized seeds in transgenic hybrids in field. Moreover, small seeds are<br />

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