Dual-herbicide seeds to be Monsanto’s biggest GE launch

After a decade of development, Monsanto anticipates its genetically engineered Xtend soybean and cotton varieties will be its “largest biotech trait launch…with six times the number of varieties” that it offered in a previous set of GE strains. The new varieties, to go on the market in 2016, are designed to tolerate the herbicides dicamba and glyphosate.… » Read More

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