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Bayer CropScience milestones

  • 2011

    New fungicidal seed treatment, active ingredient Penflufen, is registered in the first market (UK, potato cultivation, product Emesto™)

  • 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.

  • 2011

    Acquisition of US-based Hornbeck Seed Company (US soybean seed market)

  • 2010

    Bayer CropScience signs several collaboration agreements under its BioScience business unit: One example is the collaboration agreement with Evogene, to improve wheat seed.

  • 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.

  • 2010

    New herbicide Indaziflam is registered

  • 2010

    New fungicidal active ingredient Bixafen registered in first market (UK)

  • 2010

    New rice fungicide Isotianil is granted regulatory approval in Japan (product Routine®)

  • 2009

    Bayer CropScience is first to sequence the genome of rapeseed/canola – This milestone will speed up research and breeding programs.

  • 2009

    Bayer CropScience acquires US biotech company Athenix Corp. (Trait platform with extensive product pipeline to deliver innovative solutions).

  • 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

  • 2009

    The US Department of Agriculture grants approval for Bayer CropScience’s GlyTol™ cotton technology.

  • 2009

    New fungicidal active ingredient Fluopyram strengthens product portfolio (product Luna®, to combat fungal pathogens)

  • 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

  • 2009

    Bayer CropScience acquires certain biological products for the crop protection business from AgroGreen.

  • 2009

    Bayer CropScience presents the new herbicidal active ingredient, Indaziflam

  • 2009

    Launch of herbicide-tolerance technology for soybeans in the United States

  • 2008

    “Baylab plants” lab for schools opens in Monheim: Bayer CropScience encourages students’ interest in science and new technologies

  • 2008

    Thiencarbazone-methyl is registered in first market (corn herbicide)

  • 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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[ last update: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 ]