LibertyLink is a BASF-owned brand of genes for use in agriculture providing tolerance to Liberty herbicide and glufosinate (a.k.a.
The genes were developed by Bayer CropScience, before being sold to BASF Ag in late 2017.
Glufosinate was included in a biocide ban proposed by the Swedish Chemicals Agency[2] and approved by the European Parliament on January 13, 2009.
[3] The LibertyLink gene is available in a variety of crops including corn, cotton, canola, sugarbeet and soybean.
In April 2010, a Lonoke County, Arkansas jury awarded a dozen farmers $48 million.