<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Field Testing</b></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Transgenic soybean line GU262 was field tested in the United States (1996-1998). Field trial reports from these tests demonstrated that the transformed soybean line did not exhibit weedy characteristics, and had no effect on nontarget organisms or the general environment.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Outcrossing</b></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Gene introgression from transformed soybean line GU262 was extremely unlikely as there are no relatives of cultivated soybean in the continental United States and soybean plants are almost completely self-pollinated.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Weediness Potential</b></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">The gene that confers tolerance to the herbicide, glufosinate, will not provide soybean line GU262 or their progeny with any measurable selective advantage over non-transformed soybean plants in their ability to disseminate or to become established in the environment. GU262 lines did not exhibit any increased weediness characteristics relative to that of traditional varieties or the unmodified parental line.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Secondary and Non-Target Adverse Effects</b></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">It was concluded that soybean line GU262 would not have a significant adverse impact on organisms beneficial to plants or agriculture, nontarget organisms, or on any threatened or endangered species.</p>
