Bayer and Evogene to collaborate on rice productivity improvements

29 Apr 2009 | News

Collaboration

Bayer CropScience and Evogene Ltd have formed a three-year collaboration focused on increasing rice productivity and yield, in which genes discovered by Evogene for yield enhancement will be introduced into Bayer CropScience’s rice research pipeline.

Bayer CropScience will be granted an exclusive commercialization license to the candidate genes for use in rice. The agreement strengthens and expands the companies’ existing collaboration for rice, established in 2007. Financial details were not disclosed.

“We are very pleased by this expansion of our rice collaboration with Bayer CropScience on yield improvement,” said Ofer Haviv, Evogene’s President and CEO. “This important trait has been, and will remain, a key focus area for Evogene, and the new agreement represents an important addition to our rapidly expanding programme in this area.”

Evogene is an Israeli company that specialises in improving plant traits. Its technology combines computational gene discovery, plant and field validation capabilities and selection systems.


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