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Nature Biotechnology 26, 259 (1 March 2008) | doi:10.1038/nbt0308-259

Tony Conner

Jim Kling

After plenty of heated public debate, in 2002 a New Zealand Royal Commission report recommended caution regarding genetic engineering. Those voicing opinions leading up to the report's release included Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and the Soil & Health Association, as well as Tony Conner, a senior scientist at The New Zealand Institute for Crop & Food Research, in Christchurch.