Bayer CropScience Expands Rice-Breeding Program

Bayer CropScience says it has been granted exclusive rights to Fazenda Ana Paula’s (Salvador, Brazil) hybrid rice-breeding program. Financial terms were not disclosed. "Hybrid rice will play an important role in meeting the need for increased global rice production demanded by over half the world’s population,” says Mathias Kremer, head of Bayer’s BioSceince business unit. “We are already a world-wide leader in hybrid rice seed with Arize, and we intend to enhance our hybrids further - with superior genetics and a world-class...

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