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terminator seed
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terminator seed
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a seed that produces sterile plants, used in some genetically modified crops so that a new supply of seeds has to be bought every year


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Terminator Technology promises to be a big money maker for Monsanto and its subsidiaries.
This terminator technology was developed to ensure that farmers in the developing world could not reuse genetically engineered seed (ETC Group 2002).
ETC blew the whistle on Monsanto's Terminator technology, intended to render seeds sterile so farmers had to buy new seeds every year.
 
 
 
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