He suggests that farmers trying to grow thirsty grain in dry northern and western parts of China should be persuaded to change their crops.

ECONOMIST: China

Indeed, Bowman conceded in deposition testimony that he knew of no other farmer who employed beans bought from a grain elevator to grow a new crop.

FORBES: Connect

Although the plant springing forth from that seed is healthy and can go about its business of producing grain, say, quite normally, the grain that it produces will not grow if planted, because the activated terminator gene has killed off the seed's reproductive bits.

ECONOMIST: Terminator genes