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Nature 405, 986 (29 June 2000) | doi:10.1038/35016706

Call for monitoring plan on German GM crops

Alison Abbott & Ulrike Hellerer

An impasse between government ministers over the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops has led the German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, to intervene. Last week, he asked companies to agree voluntarily to grow their licensed crops only within the framework of a three-year government-based research and monitoring programme.