DuPont and Syngenta announce the formation of a 50-50 joint venture and licensing agreements that will provide broad access to the companies' proprietary corn and soybean genetic lines and biotechnology traits.DuPont and Syngenta announce the formation of a 50-50 joint venture and licensing agreements that will provide broad access to the companies' proprietary corn 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 genetic lines and biotechnology traits. The two companies also agree to cross-license certain com and soy bean traits that each company will market independently under their own seed brands. The agreement includes rights for Syngenta to market the new Optimum[TM] GAT[TM] herbicide herbicide (hr`bəsīd'), chemical compound that kills plants or inhibits their normal growth. A herbicide in a particular formulation and application can be described as selective or nonselective. tolerant trait trait (trat) 1. any genetically determined characteristic; also, the condition prevailing in the heterozygous state of a recessive disorder, as the sickle cell trait. 2. a distinctive behavior pattern. developed by DuPont. The joint venture, named GreenLeaf Genetics genetics, scientific study of the mechanism of heredity. While Gregor Mendel first presented his findings on the statistical laws governing the transmission of certain traits from generation to generation in 1856, it was not until the discovery and detailed study of will be based in Omaha, NE, and led by Ron Wulfkuhle, the current head of Syngenta's GreenLeaf Genetics business. |
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