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. For purposes of this article only, the following definitions
apply:
(a) "Farmer" means the person responsible for planting a crop,
managing the crop, and harvesting the crop from land on which a
breach of contract or patent infringement is alleged to have
occurred.
(b) "Genetically engineered plant" means a plant or any plant part
or material, including, but not limited to, seeds and pollen, in
which the genetic material has been changed through modern
biotechnology in a way that does not occur naturally by
multiplication or natural recombination.
(c) "Modern biotechnology" means the application of either of the
following:
(1) In vitro nucleic acid techniques, including recombinant
deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and direct injection of nucleic acid into
cells or organelles.
(2) Fusion of cells beyond the taxonomic family that overcome
natural physiological reproductive or recombinant barriers and that
are not techniques used in traditional breeding and selection.