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Figure 1: The previous voting habits of the EU ministers on matters concerning GM crops.

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Research in our laboratory is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN), Spain (BFU2007-61413); European Union Framework 6 Program—The Pharma-Planta Integrated Project LSH-2002-1.2.5-2; European Union Framework 7 Program-SmartCell Integrated Project 222716; European Union Framework 7 European Research Council IDEAS Advanced Grant (to P.C.) Program-BIOFORCE; COST Action FA0804: Molecular farming: plants as a production platform for high value proteins; and Centre CONSOLIDER on Agrigenomics, funded by MICINN, Spain.

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  1. Maite Sabalza, Bruna Miralpeix and Richard M Twyman: These authors contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Departament de Producció Vegetal I Ciència Forestal, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain

    Maite Sabalza, Bruna Miralpeix, Teresa Capell & Paul Christou

  2. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

    Richard M Twyman

  3. Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Passeig Lluís Companys, Barcelona, Spain

    Paul Christou

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Sabalza, M., Miralpeix, B., Twyman, R. et al. EU legitimizes GM crop exclusion zones. Nat Biotechnol 29, 315–317 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.1840

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