General Article GM crops: timeline

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Key events in the development of GM crops in the USA and attempts to introduce them to Britain and Europe.

 

1976

US company Monsanto launches its herbicide Roundup.

 

1980

US Supreme Court rules that genetically engineered micro-organisms are pat...

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