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World Service,31 Aug 1999,13 mins

Maize Genes and 'soft' Biotechnology

The Farming World

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As the debate on genetic manipulation of food crops continues, a look at the 'soft end' of freely available biotechnology, from the Long Ashton site of the Institute of Arable Crops Research where Keith Edwards has been working on understanding what each of the 50,000 maize plant genes does.

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