Corn continues as the major crop being field tested under our regulations.
In the past 2 years we have seen the first field trials involving Arabidopsis thaliana , barley, broccoli, carrot, chicory, cranberry, creeping bentgrass, eggplant, gladiolus, grape, pea, pepper, raspberry, strawberry, sugarcane, sweetgum, sweet potato, watermelon, and wheat. This information, which is updated daily and provides direct public access to information formerly available only upon written request, is proving very useful both to companies and to individual researchers who wish to track the progress of agricultural biotechnology. These requests, from developers of new products produced through biotechnology, facilitate the entry of the products into the marketplace. Herbicide-tolerant cotton, developed by DuPont Agricultural Products, January 1996. Altered-ripening tomato, developed by Agritope, Inc., March 1996.