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Cargill: Biotechnology and Value Creation in Wheat

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  • Boland, Michael A.

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About 40 percent of the world's food supply came from rice and wheat-based foods. The genome of wheat (a genome is a set of chromosomes) was much larger than those of other crops such as rice. Deciphering the wheat genome was a much more complex process. Wheat had six DNA strands (e.g., humans have only a double-helix DNA strand) and almost twice as many genes as humans. GM wheat would be available for production by 2004. The objective of this case is to describe: segregation and identity-preservation issues in the wheat value chain, the role of Cargill in that value chain, and issues surrounding the introduction of genetically modified wheat.

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  • Boland, Michael A., 2003. "Cargill: Biotechnology and Value Creation in Wheat," International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, International Food and Agribusiness Management Association, vol. 6(3), pages 1-18.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:ifaamr:34397
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.34397
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    1. Hayenga, Marvin L. & Wisner, Robert N., 2000. "Cargill's Acquisition of Continental Grain's Grain Merchandising Business," Staff General Research Papers Archive 5235, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
    2. Marvin Hayenga & Robert Wisner, 2000. "Cargill's Acquisition of Continental Grain's Grain Merchandising Business," Review of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 22(1), pages 252-266.
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