Brussels, 30/05/2014 (Agence Europe) - The “réseau semences paysannes” has joined forces with the German and Spanish representatives of the international coalition “No Patents on Seeds!” to lodge an appeal against a European patent held by Monsanto on conventionally bred tomatoes (EP1812575). The patent claims tomatoes with a natural resistance to a fungal disease called Botrytis cinerea. The original tomatoes used for this patent came from the international gene bank in...