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Nature 420, 596 (12 December 2002) | doi:10.1038/420596b

Syngenta ready to drop plans for Indian rice venture

K. S. Jayaraman

Syngenta, the Swiss-based agricultural biotechnology company, is set to withdraw from a collaborative deal that would have brought it commercial rights to a unique collection of Indian rice strains.The ground-breaking deal would have given the company access to over 19,000 strains of local rice cultivars, painstakingly gathered by the agricultural scientist R.