Brasher: Hard choice on biotech corn awaits Vilsack
Philip Brasher [log in to unmask] Feb. 15, 2009
 

Washington, D.C. - A new gene-altered corn promises to make fuel ethanol greener and cheaper.

The corn, developed by Syngenta AG, requires less energy and water to turn into ethanol, and theoretically can produce more ethanol per bushel.

But the prospect of this designer corn going on the market as soon as next year is giving the food industry indigestion.

 

For more on this article go to http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009902150322

 

Dana

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