Bayer Partners with IPK for Biotech Canola Research
February 20, 2009| |
Bayer CropScience announced that it is teaming up with Germany-based Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) to develop genetically modified, high-yielding canola varieties. Canola is an important source of oil used in the food industry and as a raw material for manufacturing biodiesel. The oil content of conventional canola is around 45 percent. Bayer and IPK believe that oil content in canola can be increased by means of plant biotechnology. Michiel van Lookeren Campagne, head of BioScience Research at Bayer CropScience, commented that the collaboration will open new opportunities for the company's customers. Bayer said that it plans to "further grow its business in canola seed and improved traits, for example, by expanding regionally into new geographical markets and by boosting research."
Read the press release at http://www.bayercropscience.com/BCSWeb/CropProtection.nsf/id/EN_20090216?open&l=EN&ccm=500020
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