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Intellectual Property & Agriculture

By Richard P.W. Stobbe

In the 1990s, researchers at the University of Saskatchewan developed a transgenic variety of flax known as CDC Triffid, which was genetically designed to be herbicide-resistant. The crop received regulatory approval in the mid-1990s, but was never adopted by Canadian farmers for commercial use, because of fears that its use would close export markets such as the [...]

Full post as published by Intellectual Property in Canada (ipblog.ca) on January 25, 2010 (boomark / email).