Biotech Updates

Evogene and Sungene to Develop Tools for GM Crops

June 29, 2007

Evogene Ltd., a plant biotechnology company in Israel, and SunGene GmbH, a BASF Plant Science company, will collaborate on developing next generation enabling technologies for the precise bioengineering of crops. This project, according to Evogene will “enable the introduction of target genes into plant DNA in a new way by using integration sites that are especially suitable for the insertion of new genes. This will further increase efficiency in plant biotech research and development by reducing the number of plants that have to be analyzed”. The current method of introducing target genes involves analyzing a high number of plants.

See Evogene’s press release at http://www.evogene.com/news.asp?new_id=34.