Bayer CropScience opens canola research facility in Canada

24-Jul-2009 - Canada

Bayer CropScience has today inaugurated a new centre of innovation northeast of Saskatoon/Canada, dedicated to the research, development and breeding of canola/oilseed. This new addition to their existing 225 hectare breeding station covers almost 5000 square meters of laboratories and phytotron rooms, including around 750 square meters of air-purity controlled greenhouse space.

The facility will employ approximately 40 people from plant breeders to molecular scientists and plant pathologists. It brings the Bayer CropScience canola breeding program together in one facility for the first time. Canola is a form of rapeseed primarily grown in North America and Australia. Through the additional investment of close to EUR 10 Million Bayer CropScience aims at driving the continual advancement of InVigor® hybrid canola.

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