Indigenous Maize: Who Owns the Rights to Mexico’s ‘Wonder’ Plant?

Yale e360
Jul 16, 2019, 7:08 am628 ptsHot
A nitrogen-fixing maize grown in an indigenous region of Mexico has the ability to fertilize itself, recent research shows. Now, as a global company and U.S. scientists work to replicate this trait in other corn varieties, will the villages where the maize originated share fairly in the profits? Read more on…

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