Well, first off, there are no terminator genes in use. Second, any licensing agreement would naturally prohibit any effort to modify it to remove them. There&#x27;s no getting around the fact that you&#x27;d be willfully violating your agreement by starting from the licensed seeds. And even if you could manage it somehow (which you can&#x27;t), you&#x27;d run right into the same regulatory process that Monsanto has already gone through. It&#x27;d be much more than $484k for that process alone, to say nothing of development costs.<p>Small farmers could never fund that sort of effort, and large industrialized farms would be sophisticated enough and have access to legal counsel to know better.