NTGs for agriculture, Europe looks to the future once again

José María Fontán, president of BIOVEGEN, analyzes the implications of the new European regulations for NGTs in an opinion piece published today by the online newspaper Demócrata. In an accessible style, Fontán explains that these improvement techniques are also based "on the process of crossbreeding and selecting plants that we have been perfecting since the Paleolithic era," obtaining changes that could very well have arisen naturally, but now by inducing these desired mutations "in a much more precise way.".