Delta and Pine Land Company (D&PL), Scott, Miss., and Syngenta, Wilmington, Del., announce that D&PL has acquired licenses from Syngenta to deliver novel biotechnology products to cotton growers worldwide.Delta and Pine Land Company (D&PL), Scott, Miss., and Syngenta Syngenta AG is a large global agribusiness which markets seeds and crop protection products (pesticides). Syngenta is involved in biotechnology and genomic research. The company is a leader in crop protection, and ranks third in total sales in the commercial agricultural seeds , Wilmington Wilmington. 1 City (1990 pop. 71,529), seat of New Castle co., NE Del., on the Delaware River and tributary streams, the Christina and the Brandywine; settled 1638, inc. as a city 1832. , Del., announce that D&PL has acquired licenses from Syngenta to deliver novel biotechnology products to cotton growers worldwide. Under the agreements with Syngenta, D&PL obtains global licenses to develop and commercialize Syngenta's innovative insect resistance traits, as well as licenses to a wide range of other Syngenta enabling technologies that may be useful in developing new technologies for use in cottonseed cottonseed seed of the cotton plant. Made into cake after oil extraction and used as feed for livestock. cottonseed cake or meal contains gossypol and causes hepatitis and degeneration of cardiac muscle. and soybean soybean, soya bean, or soy pea, leguminous plant (Glycine max, G. soja, or Soja max) of the family Leguminosae (pulse family), native to tropical and warm temperate regions of Asia, where it has been seed. In return for the licenses, D&PL will pay Syngenta approximately $47 million in installments. |
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