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Confronting the Gordian knot

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Galvanizing plant science in Europe will depend on an overhaul of the tangle of indefensible regulations themselves, not on the advent of new plant breeding technologies that may escape existing rules.

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  1. L. Val Giddings is Senior Fellow at the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF), Washington, DC, USA.,

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  2. Ingo Potrykus is on the Humanitarian Golden Rice Board & Network and Professor Emeritus of Plant Science at the Swiss Institute of Plant Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland.,

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  3. Klaus Ammann is Professor Emeritus at the University of Bern, Neuchatel, Switzerland.,

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  4. Nina V. Fedoroff is at Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.,

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Giddings, L., Potrykus, I., Ammann, K. et al. Confronting the Gordian knot. Nat Biotechnol 30, 208–209 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2145

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