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Revising Oversight of Genetically Modified Plants

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  1. director of the systemwide biotechnology research and education program at the University of California, Los Angeles

    Susanne L. Huttner

  2. head of the plant biotechnology program at Texas A & M University Institute of Biosciences and Technology,

    Charles Arntzen

  3. the Scripps Research Institute,

    Roger Beachy

  4. director of the Center for Engineering Plants for Resistance Against Pathogens at the University of California, Davis

    George Breuning

  5. associate director of the systemwide biotechnology research and education program at the University of California, Los Angeles

    Eugene Nester

  6. chairman of the department of microbiology at die University of Washington,

    Laura De Francesco

  7. director of the genetic resource conservation program at the University of California, Davis

    Calvin Qualset

  8. chair of the plant pathology department at the University of Nebraska,

    Anne Vidaver

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Huttner, S., Arntzen, C., Beachy, R. et al. Revising Oversight of Genetically Modified Plants. Nat Biotechnol 10, 967–971 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0992-967

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