NY times article about issues and challenges of modern plant breeding

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/07/opinion/sunday/dan-barber-seed-companies.html

Much of this is probably not new to people  - but I had no idea that you could patent the "purpleness" of a carrot!

Thanks for sharing that Catie. More than a little scary. It makes the work that Joseph Lofthouse and others here on Permies do to develop landrace seeds all the more critical.