2009-05-14 | permalink

Bayer CropScience and Evogene enter a multi-year collaboration for rice yield improvement

Bayer CropScience AG and Evogene Ltd. today announced a three-year collaboration focused on increasing rice productivity and yield. Pursuant to the collaboration agreement, key candidate genes discovered by Evogene for yield enhancement will be introduced into Bayer CropScience’s rice R&D pipeline for the development of high yielding hybrid rice. The agreement strengthens and expands the companies’ existing research and development collaboration for rice, established in 2007.

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