The class of researchers who actually do the intellectual work share in a very tiny portion of the profits made from their IP.

Even in bourgeois economic theory, IP is rent seeking behaviour and encourages monopoly formation.

Researchers should absolutely be compensated for their contributions to developing new cultivars. As with everything, outsourcing this research to the private sector has been an absolute disaster

You can remove the room in your heart. Most research that disrupts is not done by the private companies, but by researchers. Most of this advancements are typically done when they force the collaboration between researchers with (mostly) public funds that an enterprises takes the profit. Heck, even LLMs were done by university researchers that happen to collaborate with Google to get funding and compute power.