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Bayer CropScience milestones
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2011
New fungicidal seed treatment, active ingredient Penflufen, is registered in the first market (UK, potato cultivation, product Emesto™)
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2011
The new LifeNet® mosquito nets which, for the first time, have directly integrated the active ingredient into a polypropylene fiber, receive an interim recommendation from the World Health Organization.
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2011
Acquisition of US-based Hornbeck Seed Company (US soybean seed market)
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2010
Bayer CropScience signs several collaboration agreements under its BioScience business unit: One example is the collaboration agreement with Evogene, to improve wheat seed.
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2010
Nunhems, the vegetable seed business of Bayer CropScience, expands research and seed production. It invests EUR 12 million in its research facilities in the Netherlands and US$ 30 million in a new seed processing facility in the United States.
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2010
New herbicide Indaziflam is registered
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2010
New fungicidal active ingredient Bixafen registered in first market (UK)
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2010
New rice fungicide Isotianil is granted regulatory approval in Japan (product Routine®)
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2009
Bayer CropScience is first to sequence the genome of rapeseed/canola – This milestone will speed up research and breeding programs.
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2009
Bayer CropScience acquires US biotech company Athenix Corp. (Trait platform with extensive product pipeline to deliver innovative solutions).
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2009
Start of a long-term cooperation with leading Australian research institute, CSIRO – Expansion of global R&D activities in cereal seeds and traits to accommodate this new key crop
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2009
The US Department of Agriculture grants approval for Bayer CropScience’s GlyTol™ cotton technology.
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2009
New fungicidal active ingredient Fluopyram strengthens product portfolio (product Luna®, to combat fungal pathogens)
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2009
Bayer CropScience consolidates European Plant Biotechnology Research in Ghent – Focus will be on stress tolerance, increasing yields and optimized quality traits in plants in the future
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2009
Bayer CropScience acquires certain biological products for the crop protection business from AgroGreen.
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2009
Bayer CropScience presents the new herbicidal active ingredient, Indaziflam
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2009
Launch of herbicide-tolerance technology for soybeans in the United States
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2008
“Baylab plants” lab for schools opens in Monheim: Bayer CropScience encourages students’ interest in science and new technologies
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2008
Thiencarbazone-methyl is registered in first market (corn herbicide)
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2008
The world’s first hybrid rice variety, resistant to bacterial leaf blight – Bayer CropScience launches new high-yielding rice variety in India



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