New techniques for manipulating plant genomes are yielding plants touted as nontransgenic. Will that relieve regulatory burden? Emily Waltz investigates.
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Waltz, E. Tiptoeing around transgenics. Nat Biotechnol 30, 215–217 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2143
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