MONSANTO NIXES TERMINATOR SEEDS

摘要

Monsanto, the leading developer and marketer of genetically engineered crops, says it won't commercialize technologies that render second-generation seeds sterile. Such "terminator" technologies have been a contentious issue in the intensifying debate surrounding genetically modified plants and foods. Although companies see such technologies as ways to protect and recoup their R&D investments through seed sales, opponents see them as a threat to fanners' centuries-old practice of collecting seeds from year to year for replanting, an economic necessity in developing countries.