Developing countries grew close to 50% of the world's transgenic crops, with China, India, Brazil, Argentina and South Africa contributing 44%. A total of 16.7-million farmers used transgenic seed last year, up from 1.3 million in 2010. Stacked-trait crops continue to show rapid growth. Very few novel traits were deregulated, but Brazilian authorities did approve a virus-resistant bean. Europe witnessed the lowest number of field trials since 1991, when records began.
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In the version of this article initially published, in the Table ‘Transgenic crop and/or traits receiving approval’, Syngenta was credited with product MON 87460-4. Monsanto owns MON 87460-4. The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.
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Marshall, A. Existing agbiotech traits continue global march. Nat Biotechnol 30, 207 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2154
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