Seeds ownership

J. Stewart Witzeman, Eastman Chemical It makes sense that you could define policies for what you called intramural work. That is seed money that the universities invested the ownership is clear. Can you comment on corporate-sponsored work There may be underpinning technology owned by the university and that is a real bone of contention. 

A few companies, perhaps concerned about possible conflict of values with their existing brands, have launched separate organic brands. An example of this is Seeds of Change, which is under the ownership of the Mars family, who also control Uncle Ben s and Dolmio, among other brands. 

Moulds belonging to the Mucorales family produce GLA as their only 18 3 acid. Commercial processes for GLA production have been developed in Japan based on Mortierella isabelina and in the UK based on Mucor javanicus. The UK production is now discontinued following a change in ownership of the producer company. These products differ from the seed oils in their higher levels of saturated and monoene acids and their lower level of linoleic acid (Table 4). This makes the mould-derived oils more suitable as a source of pure... 

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