Control of Cotton: The Patenting of Transgenic Cotton

Importance of Cotton as a Foreign Exchange Earner. What Impact on Farmers?

Agracetus, a subsidiary of W.R. Grace, receives a shockingly broad US patent covering all genetically engineered cotton varieties. This is the first reported case where one patent covers all transgenic plants of an entire species.

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