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Evogene Ltd. ((ヘブライ語:אבוג'ן)) is an Israeli company engaged in research and development for improving crop quality, productivity and economics for the food, feed and biofuel industries. The Company has strategic collaborations with world-leading agricultural companies to develop improved seed traits in relation to yield and a-biotic stress (such as tolerance to drought), and biotic stress (such as resistance to disease), in key crops as corn, soybean, wheat and rice. ==Activity== Evogene focuses on four key fields for its future growth: I. Improving yield and abiotic stress tolerance traits for key agricultural crops. II.Improving disease, insects and other biotic stress resistance traits III. agrochemistry (the interface between chemicals and plants) IV. Develop non-food feedstock for biodiesel through its subsidiary, Evofuel. The company employs about 200 workers in various fields, of them 85% are engaged in research and development. The multidisciplinary team includes computer experts, biologists, geneticists, agronomists and others. Evogene has its main offices and compound of laboratories in Rehovot, Israel. The company also has greenhouses and other plant growing sites throughout Israel. The company cooperates with some of the leading seed companies around the world, among them, Syngenta, DuPont, Monsanto and Bayer CropScience, in order to develop and commercialize its technology. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Evogene」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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