Against the Cartagena Protocol and widespread scientific support for a case-by-case approach to regulation, the Convention on Biological Diversity has become a platform for imposing broad restrictions on research and development of all types of transgenic trees.
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Strauss, S., Tan, H., Boerjan, W. et al. Strangled at birth? Forest biotech and the Convention on Biological Diversity. Nat Biotechnol 27, 519–527 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0609-519
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