17.11.2010 | permalink
Early this year, Bayer announced that it is pulling out its application for commercial approval of its genetically modified Liberty Link rice (LL62) in Brazil. Its action sent a signal that - with the numerous law suits it had to settle or pay in damages in the US for contaminating rice farms with its LL601 rice variety - GM rice, the herbicide resistant one in any case, might just be too controversial to be commercialised.