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It all began with an ambitious agribiotechnology project. Seeking a way to protect agricultural crops without pesticides, scientists at the VerdeGen corporation decided to combine nature and science in the most radical way possible: by introducing genes from carnivorous plants into the DNA of conventional crops. The goal seemed noble—to create plants capable of independently destroying pests. To transfer the necessary genes, they used a special plant pathogenic virus, FVX-9, which has an e …