The News story 'Seed-patent case in Supreme Court' (Nature 494, 289–290; 2013) implied that Monsanto patented a method for engineering transgenic crops to produce sterile seeds before 1999. Although it began negotiations in 1998 to acquire the firm that filed the patents, the deal only completed in 2007. Monsanto never commercialized such crops.
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Correction. Nature 514, 18 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/514018b
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