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Genetically modified crops are often framed as the products of multinational corporations, but in poorer nations it is public research that is vibrant and attempting their development.

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Figure 1: Total events distributed by phenotype.
Figure 2: Phenotype characteristics sorted by number of transformation events among the top 10 crops in the study data set.
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Figure 5: Phenotypic characterization of all 44 field trials.
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The author acknowledges contributions to this paper from P. Zambrano of IFPRI, and all those participating in the initial Next Harvest study. Special thanks to the National Agricultural Biotechnology Council Meeting 16, where this data and ideas were initially presented, and for the support of Alan Wildeman. Financial and technical support from The Netherlands DGIS in The Hague, The Netherlands, the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (Bern) and the United Kingdom's Department for Internal Development (London).

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