DuPont Renews Collaboration to Further Crop Production

Posted by |12 November 2012

DuPont and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) renewed a research collaboration designed to improve plant breeding to help increase yields from available acreage and meet growing food demands worldwide.

“Innovative science and technology are at the core of productivity improvements that will allow us to meet global food security goals of ensuring that people everywhere have access to sufficient and nutritious food that meets their dietary need and food preferences for a healthy life,” said John Bedbrook, DuPont Agricultural Biotechnology vice president. “Our collaboration has contributed to — and will continue to contribute to — increasing our understanding of the basic genetic mechanisms controlling plant growth and development which will contribute to global food security in the coming decades.”

CSHL and Pioneer are investing in discovery research that tackles some of the most fundamental aspects of plant biology. The renewal of the collaboration agreement will continue the expansion of knowledge about the genetic basis of fundamental plant processes controlling growth, development and yield. This collaboration will help facilitate the development of innovative products to meet future global food needs.

“CSHL’s successful partnership with DuPont Pioneer has fostered strong collaboration between a uniquely aligned group of research and industry scientists,” said Bruce Stillman, president of CSHL. “These two groups are leveraging each other’s strengths to achieve research results that we believe will lead to important improvements in crop yield around the world.”

(Source: DuPont; edited by FCI staff)