RESEARCHN umerous biological, environmental, and crop management factors and their interactions infl uence the frequency and distance of pollen-mediated gene fl ow (PMGF) between donor and receptor fi elds, including type of vector (wind and/or insect), genotype or cultivar, fertility (e.g., male-fertile or -sterile receptor plants), pollen viability and longevity, synchrony of fl owering or pollen production, wind speed and direction, air turbulence or convective air currents, temperature, humidity, and area and plant density of donor and receptor populations (Beckie and Hall, 2008). At a landscape or regional scale, additional factors infl uencing PMGF are topography, vegetation, distribution and abundance of volunteer and feral populations, and number, shape, and spatial arrangement of pollen donor and receptor fi elds.The frequency of PMGF generally declines rapidly with increasing distance from the donor fi eld, often described by a leptokurtic curve, that is, higher probability distribution in the tail than predicted by a normal distribution. The length and shape of the asymptote tail depends on the species, environment, and limits of transgene or phenotypic detection and can be the result ABSTRACT Crop intraspecifi c pollen-mediated gene fl ow (PMGF) can be scale dependent. In 2004-the fi rst year imidazolinone (IMI)-resistant spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) was commercially available-a study was conducted in western Canada to examine PMGF in commercial fi elds. At each of two sites located 4 km apart in the semiarid grassland region of Saskatchewan, PMGF was measured from a 16-ha (400 × 400 m) fi eld of IMI-resistant wheat (cultivar CDC Imagine) to an adjacent fi eld of conventional (non-IMI-resistant) wheat (cultivar AC Barrie) with the same dimensions. Wheat grain samples of AC Barrie were collected at varying distances to 400 m along fi ve equally-spaced transects oriented perpendicular to the common border with CDC Imagine. A total of 2000 seedlings per sample were screened for resistance to imazamox at 200 μM in a 7-d soilless bioassay. Putative resistant hybrids were confi rmed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis. Averaged across transects and sites, PMGF was 0.2% at the common border and declined exponentially with increasing distance; the maximum distance that PMGF was detected was 80 m from the donor fi eld. Higher levels of PMGF were generally observed in this study compared with that of previous studies in western Canada. Results of this study provide a more complete assessment of PMGF in this crop under western Canadian climatic conditions. Together with previous studies, frequency and distance of PMGF can guide grower stewardship practices for identify preservation in wheat cultivars possessing different traits.