[PCA] NEWS: Closed-Source Crops

[Kwong, Olivia]

http://conservationmagazine.org/2011/06/closed-source-crops/

Closed-Source Crops
A handful of giant corporations are laying claim to germplasm of the
world's major food crops. And when yield is the grail of profit,
biodiversity isn't a priority
June 1, 2011 | Agriculture | Conservation Magazine
By Paul Salopek

Look at the seed. It is oblong, tapered like a bowling pin, ashy black,
smaller than a peppercorn."You can see it's not really domesticated," Chris
Schmidt says.

See the link above for the full article text.
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