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Elevating the conversation about GE crops

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  1. North Carolina State, Dept. of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Genetic Engineering and Society Center, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

    Fred Gould

  2. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dept. of Biochemistry, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

    Richard M Amasino

  3. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dept. of Life Sciences Communication, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

    Dominique Brossard

  4. Michigan State University, Dept. of Plant Biology, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

    C Robin Buell

  5. University of North Texas, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Denton, Texas, USA

    Richard A Dixon

  6. Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, USA

    Jose B Falck-Zepeda

  7. Rutgers University, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute and CounterACT Research Center of Excellence, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA

    Michael A Gallo

  8. Wageningen University, Plant Production Systems, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Ken E Giller

  9. Pennsylvania State University, Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

    Leland L Glenna

  10. Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Jaharis Family Center for Biomedical and Nutrition Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Timothy Griffin

  11. Purdue University, Dept. of Food Science, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

    Bruce R Hamaker

  12. University of California, Los Angeles, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Peter M Kareiva

  13. Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, DC, USA

    Daniel Magraw

  14. Oregon State University, Dept. of Crop and Soil Science, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

    Carol Mallory-Smith

  15. CIMMYT (Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo), Texcoco CP, Edo. de México, Mexico

    Kevin V Pixley

  16. University of Richmond, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Richmond, Virginia, USA

    Elizabeth P Ransom

  17. University of Virginia, Dept. of Engineering and Society, Charlottesville, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

    Michael Rodemeyer

  18. Texas A&M University, Dept. of Soil and Crop Sciences, College Station, Texas, USA

    David M Stelly

  19. University of Tennessee, Dept. of Plant Sciences, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

    C Neal Stewart Jr

  20. Produce Marketing Association (PMA), Newark, Delaware, USA

    Robert J Whitaker

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None of the authors declares a financial conflict in relationship to the contents of this response to the Giddings and Miller article. In the interests of disclosure, however, the authors state that some of us or our laboratories are conducting research in the areas under discussion that could have potential commercial applications. D.M.S. is conducting research that could potentially facilitate use of genetic engineering; R.M.A., R.A.D. and C.N.S. are developing plants or methods with genetic engineering that in the future could have potential commercial applications; R.M.A., R.A.D. and C.M.S. are listed as inventors on patents under the following numbers: (R.M.A.) 7,888,122; 7,723,565; 7,420,102; 7,303,918; 7,199,282; 7,129,396; 6,921,849; 6,693,228; 6,359,197; 5,689,042; (R.A.D.) 5,530,187; 5,750,399; 6,316,697; 6,573,432; 7,038,113; 7,384,759; 7,432,425; 7,622,638; 7,709,701; 7,316,928; 7,442,851; 7,663,023; 7,816,507; 7,880,059; 7,888,533; 8,129,592; 8,138,392 B2; 8,420,889 B2; 8,796,509 B2; 8,809,627 B2; 8,901,371 B2; 9,045,549 B2; 9,121,031 B2; 9,238,821B2; 2,404,104; 2003270537; 2005265356; 2007213711; 2008245794; 538259; 552453; 552941; 570395; 591217; (C.N.S.) 6,261,561; 6,406,885; 6,881,411; 6,927,322; 7,973,213; 8,604,276; 9,157,087. C.N.S. is receiving royalties on university-assigned inventions and the R.A.D. laboratory receives research funding from commercial entities (Forage Genetics International (US) and Grasslanz Technology Ltd. (New Zealand)).

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Gould, F., Amasino, R., Brossard, D. et al. Elevating the conversation about GE crops. Nat Biotechnol 35, 302–304 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3841

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