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Lost opportunities in crop plant science in Europe
Released: 07 December 2005
The current lack of investment in European crop science, which may be due to Europe’s long-standing scepticism about genetically modified plants or ‘GM’, has lead to a neglect of broader genomics-based approaches for improving crop plants, notably ‘marker-assisted breeding’.
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Contact name: Contact: Claire Packman
egenis-ero@ex.ac.uk
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