Galvanizing plant science in Europe will depend on an overhaul of the tangle of indefensible regulations themselves, not on the advent of new plant breeding technologies that may escape existing rules.
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Giddings, L., Potrykus, I., Ammann, K. et al. Confronting the Gordian knot. Nat Biotechnol 30, 208–209 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2145
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