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Article: Eat this! GM papaya from Monsanto
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- October 25, 2007
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NEW DELHI, India, Oct. 25 -- In about four years from now, provided the Supreme Court consents, India will have a transgenic papaya that is resistant to papaya ring spot virus, which is found all over the country and causes deformed and inedible fruits and eventual plant mortality.
US seeds giant Monsanto Co agreed to give a royalty-free license of its genetically modified papaya to the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University on Tuesday. "This is the first product delivery from Monsanto to the university and Monsanto has been working on this for the past year," said Bhagirath Choudhary, National Coordinator, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), a ...