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IRRI: Biotech companies muscle in on rice research

December 8, 2003 - 12:00am

LOS BAÑOS, Laguna (AFP) — Biotech companies are muscling in on rice research as donor funds for studies on what is possibly the planet’s most important crop are dwindling, International Rice Research...

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