Great article. This paragraph really sums up the entire issue.
"Without knowing they were going into a breeding program, my assumption was ‘Why would I not want my genetics in the public realm?’"he says. “Now, they have a leg up on all of us. They can pop 10,000 seeds, test the leaves within days of them sprouting, and look for the genetic data that we’ve given them. They can do in a matter of weeks what takes me nine months.”
In Phylos defense tho, I seen this coming well over a year ago and I’m a nobody. The people whose whole business is genetics should really know what’s on the cutting edge.