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04-22-2014, 05:41 PM
Open-Source Seed Initiative Plants Resistance to Patented Crops
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Most new crop varieties result from elaborate breeding programs or expensive genetic engineering techniques. Legal measures prohibit or limit farmers' and gardeners' abilities to save and replant those crops' seeds. Intellectual property rights and patents also block breeders from using those plants to create new varieties. Some sociologists, agro**mists and food-security activists worry that patenting plants makes farmers dependent on corporations for their seeds and limits regional in**vation. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/22/open-source-seed-initiative/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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