Will ECJ Ruling Be “The Deathblow for Plant Biotech in Europe”?

On July 25, when the European Court of Justice (ECJ), the European Union’s highest court, issued its strict legal ruling on directed mutagenesis, stakeholders and observers in the industry, academic, science and government arenas responded with a combination of disappointment, shock and confusion.
In short, the ECJ ruled that organisms obtained by directed mutagenesis – a set of genome editing techniques, such as CRISPR, which make it possible to alter the genome of a living spe