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``Prominent gene researchers fear that access to the complete DNA sequence of rice, the world's most important food crop, will be restricted when it is published in a scientific journal.
``The rice sequence was completed by Syngenta and the Swiss company is expected publish their work in April in Science. The journal will publish a rice genome special issue on 5 April but will not confirm if Syngenta's sequence will be part of it.
``But 20 of the world's leading scientists, including two Nobel Prize winners, have signed a letter of complaint, fearing `a very serious threat to genomics research'.
``Michael Ashburner, at Cambridge University, UK, is the author of the letter and told New Scientist: `Any attempt by a private company to assert its rights over a plant as fundamental to humanity as rice is wholly wrong and completely immoral.'''
Full story:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992061
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