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July 1999

Biotech Goes Wild

Genetic engineering will be essential to feed the world's billions. But could it unleash a race of "superweeds"? No one seems to know. And nobody's in charge of finding out.

By Charles C. Mann

A few miles outside Sacramento, several large greenhouses sit behind a fence. In the summer the familiar heads of sunflowers are visible through the glass and in the fields surrounding the greenhouses. The plants are tall, straight and healthy, with thick leaves that reach for the California sunlight. They look exactly like sunflower plants grown throughout the United States-except for the plastic cages around each flower.

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