Last year, Brazil planted 3.5 million (28% of all crops) new hectares of transgenic crops, whereas the United States added only 3.1 million (25%). Developing economies accounted for 43% of global biotech crop area, with a growth rate of 21%. In industrialized countries, the rate of expansion of transgenic crops in 2007 slowed to 6%. Chile and Poland cultivated transgenic crops for the first time, and the first transgenic tree (a transgenic plum variety) was approved in the US. Globally, herbicide- or insect-resistant soybeans, maize and cotton predominated, although yield/nutritional quality traits and stacked traits rose in popularity.
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Lawrence, S. Brazil surpasses US in new transgenic crop plantings. Nat Biotechnol 26, 260 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0308-260
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