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Moving beyond pro/con debates over genetically engineered crops

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imageField tests of flood-tolerant 'scuba rice.'International Rice Research Institute/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

Since the 1980s biologists have used genetic engineering to express novel traits in crop plants. Over the last 20 years, these crops have been grown on more than one billion acres in the United States and globally. Despite their rapid adoption by...

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