Abstract
IN AN IMMACULATE greenhouse in the painterly countryside near Ghent, Belgium, thousands of rice plants spend their lives under a strictly controlled but seemingly benign regimen of light, water, and soil nutrients. So visitors are surprised to learn that any effluent from the facility must be treated as hazardous industrial waste. The plants at this CropDesign research site are the products of genetic engineering and are not allowed outside its walls. And although genetically modified (GM) seeds may help meet the world’s growing demand for food, they face poor odds of ever being sown in the fields of Europe. CropDesign is a subsidiary of BASF. It is also part of a collaboration between BASF and Monsanto, the world leader in GM crops that are resistant to herbicides and insects. Formed in 2007, the collaboration seeks to develop a new generation of corn, soybean, cotton, and canola crops with improved yield and the ability to resist ...
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