“…In our case, the cost of developing and breeding several transgenic events into multiple weedy rice accessions led us to focus on a single transgenic event. Contrary to the implications of Gressel et al., our methods and interpretations regarding fitness‐related effects of the epsps transgene are similar in approach to many previous ecological publications on this topic (e.g. Stewart et al ., ; Snow et al ., , ; Burke & Rieseberg, ; Vacher et al ., ; Chen et al ., ; Guadagnuolo et al ., ; Laughlin et al ., ; Sasu et al ., ; Londo et al ., ; Xia et al ., ; Yang et al ., , ).…”