Bayer CropScience and FuturaGene sign license agreement for drought tolerance technology in cotton
08-Dec-2009
- Germany
The technology licensed to Bayer is intended to protect the yield of cotton plants when they are subjected to drought. Drought is one of the principal environmental limits of crop yield as it hampers the cultivation of crops on more than 40 percent of the earth’s land surface, posing a serious threat to global agricultural production and food supplies.
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