July 18, 2003

A New Johnny Appleseed

By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK

Some universities and research centers band together to make agricultural-biotechnology tools more widely available

A dozen of the most important land-grant universities and plant-research centers have joined forces to try to knock down the intellectual-property barriers blocking the use of genetic-engineering tools that might help feed millions of people in the developing world.

Although agricultural biotechnology remains undeniably controversial, many academic researchers and

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