if he's not the devil he might as well be. Patenting plants in and of itself is not new or bad. If you make a new hybrid and very carefully describe its characteristics then you can patent that hybrid but you can't patent things that already existed.
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There are several examples of legal loopholes being exploited for the patenting of non genetically modified organisms: https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/information/news/european-patent-office-grant-monsanto-company-patent-tomatoes