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To: Dan Spillane who wrote (1787)	3/23/1999 9:45:00 AM
From: Anthony Wong	Respond to of 2539

India Seeks to Map Genome of Chick Pea to Make Better Crops Bloomberg News March 23, 1999, 7:15 a.m. ET London, March 23 (Bloomberg) -- The Indian government allocated $4 million to the National Center for Plant Genome Research to map the genetic makeup of the chick pea, a major Indian food crop, Nature Biotechnology reported in its March edition. The goal will be to produce genetically improved chick peas that are more nutritious and that resist agricultural pests better, sponsors said. They said the genetic makeup of crops that appeal to Western palates, such as corn and wheat, is already being sequenced, while that of chick peas is not. Monsanto Co. and Zeneca Group Plc, two major agricultural biotechnology crop producers, settled a legal battle last week, giving Zeneca rights to market its Touchdown herbicide for Monsanto's genetically engineered ''Roundup Ready'' crops that used only Monsanto's Roundup herbicide. (Nature Biotechnology, March 1999, p. 211)