> They didn't patent the lifeform, they patented value-adding modifications to the life-form.

Then they should pay the rest of society royalties for all other value-adding modifications that were introduced in those same lifeforms since the dawn of agriculture.

They wan't to sell their value added seed for 100$? Sure but to do that they should pay 99.99$ of royalty to scientists and farmers that intoduced previous genetic modifiactions to those same seeds with selective breeding and mixing species.

If you want to sell IP you need to buy IP for the things you are basing your work on.