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Image header Agence Europe
Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11091
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SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) agriculture

European tomato patent challenged

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...