Farm Scale Evaluations of Genetically Modified Herbicide Tolerant Crops

The Farm Scale Evaluations (FSE) were setup to determine whether genetically-modified herbicide-tolerant (GMHT) crops might have any significant effects on farmland wildlife resulting from the way the crops would be managed.

The purpose of this web site is to give access to the data collected from these trials.


Datasets

Read descriptions of the available datasets or download the datasets.

Information on the trials

The Defra FSE web site has information on the trials and links to the published results.

A non-technical summary gives an introduction to the design of the trials and a summary of the results. This has been updated to include Winter Oilseed Rape results.

The full results were published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Biological Sciences). Visit the journal's web site at www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk

Further information

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