Opportunities and Challenges for Specialty Crops: Will They Sell If Developed?
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With this presentation, my role is to help to stir the discussion. Perhaps it will open the dialogue so that we have a sense of where we have been, where we are, and then what’s ahead. Figure shows a photograph from 986, and in Figure is a photograph taken two years later. We developed a tomato phenotype—viral coat-protein-mediated resistance to a common disease of tomato—with a technology that we hoped would be applicable to other horticultural and agricultural crops. Opportunities and Challenges for Specialty Crops: Will They Sell If Developed?
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