http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/plan-amend-biopiracy-rules-would-smother-research-biologists-warn

India's neem tree, which has fungicidal properties, has been the subject of a battle over biopiracy.

European scientists are warning that a push to include “digital sequence information” in an international agreement against biopiracy could stifle research, hamper the fight against disease outbreaks, and even jeopardize food safety. Under proposed changes to the Nagoya Protocol, researchers might have to ask a country’s government for permission before using publicly available gene sequences obtained from plants or animals originating there. Just how that would work is unclear, but some biologists are alarmed.