Syngenta leads Europe in rapeseed plant breeding, said the company's Nigel Padbury in September, while soybean is tops in the United States. 'And DuPont is very close to completing a very high-oleic trademarked soy oil for this market," he commented. DuPont's new breed of soybean oils is being grown under contract now, and is expected to be fully commercialized in 2012. The genetically engineered seeds, which have been in development since 1995, received final regulatory approval from the USDA in July and were introduced for limited planting this past fall.
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