Brussels, 27/02/2014 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament has stressed the extreme importance of an “effective and competitive plant-breeding sector”, in order to meet future challenges (food supply and climate change).
In its adoption, on Tuesday 25 February, of the own-initiative report by Marit Paulsen (ALDE, Sweden) on plant breeding, the EP stresses the importance of producing varieties capable of tolerating heavy rainfall and the increasing occurrence of plant disease. The...