Alliance to Develop Winter Oilseed Rape Products for Europe
December 14, 2007| |
Bayer CropScience Ag and Euralis Semences, SA, the seed division of the France-based business cooperative, have agreed to collaborate on the development of new winter oilseed rape hybrid seed products for use by European farmers. Winter oilseed rape is a key crop for the food and feed industry as well as a renewable resource which can be processed into biofuels.
Both parties will grant each other access to parental lines and trait technologies for possible use in their proprietary hybrid development programs. Bayer CropScience will avail of Euralis Semences’ extensive field testing network and infrastructure for the development, evaluation and production of new hybrids.
See the full press release at http://www.press.bayer.com/baynews/baynews.nsf/id/91DAE5736EEEA54DC12573AE0038924F?Open&ccm=001
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