Apomyx Inc. Appoints Seed Industry Leader As CEO.Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers BIOWIRE2K NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com and at www.newstream.com NORTH LOGAN, Utah--(BW HealthWire)--May 21, 2001 Apomyx Inc. Monday announced the appointment of Kent Schulze, a seed industry leader, as its new chief executive officer. Schulze, age 57, joined Apomyx on May 15, 2001. Schulze has served in senior management positions in the agricultural seed industry for over 30 years, including top leadership at three global-leading seed companies: DEKALB-PFIZER GENETICS (president/chief operating officer), now part of Monsanto Co. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : MON), Northrup King Co. (president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. ), now part of Syngenta AG (NYSE: SYT SYT Sweet Young Thing SYT Save Your Time (software) SYT See You Tomorrow SYT Scottish Youth Theatre SYT See You There SYT Standard Young Tableaux (enumerative combinatorics) SYT South Yorkshire Times ), and AgriBioTech Inc. (president/COO). Schulze is also the co-founder of ACCESS Plant Technology Inc., a technology transfer company. In his senior leadership roles he has helped commercialize and implement several now widely used seed industry product and process innovations. Schulze is well known throughout the seed industry for his leadership and organizational skills, an empowering operational style and for his strategic planning abilities. In announcing the appointment, Apomyx Chairman and President John Carman Car´man n. 1. A man whose employment is to drive, or to convey goods in, a car or car. said, "Kent Schulze provides the needed commercial seed industry experience and leadership necessary for us to succeed in our goal of conferring perpetual hybridity to crops, equitably and profitably, worldwide." In commenting on his new challenge, Schulze said, "Apomyx represents a unique opportunity to once again participate in the commercialization of a dynamic new agricultural technology. ApoSync(TM) Technology holds great promise for delivering affordable, value-added products and product improvements, and serving the growing needs of the world's food and fiber markets." Apomyx Inc. has international pioneer patents (variously allowed and pending) for its ApoSync(TM) technology, which confers, stabilizes and controls apomixis apomixis Reproduction by special tissues without fertilization. Examples include parthenogenesis in animals (in which a new individual develops from an unfertilized egg) and apogamy in plants (in which the generating tissue may be either the gametophyte or the sporophyte). (natural cloning of hybrid plants through their own seed). The "genetic fixation" of hybrid vigor afforded by apomixis is expected to substantially reduce costs of hybrid seed production for crops currently grown as hybrids. It is also expected to make economical the conversion of varietal crops, e.g. wheat, rice and soybean, to hybrid crops with accompanying yield increases. Apomyx plans to enter into strategic alliances with seed companies and to develop innovative apomictic ap·o·mict n. A plant that reproduces or is reproduced by apomixis. [Back-formation from apomictic, produced by apomixis : apo- + Greek miktos, mixed (from seed products for worldwide distribution and sale. Carman, professor of plant genetics, Utah State University Utah State University, mainly at Logan; coeducational; land-grant and state supported; chartered 1888, opened 1890. It publishes Utah Science, Western Historical Quarterly, and Western American Literary Journal. , has published research findings concerning apomixis for two decades. Based on his discoveries, he founded Apomyx Inc. on March 2, 1998. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. :http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.052101/bb5 |
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