Biogemma & Evogene participate in European Research Consortium

Goal of the consortium is targeted gene integration in plants (TAGIP)

16-Jun-2006

Evogene Ltd. and Biogemma announced their participation in the TAGIP European FP6 research consortium. The TAGIP consortium is focused on enabling the targeted integration of genes in plants.

The consortium, led by Professor Avi Levy of the Weizmann Institute of Science, includes, in addition to the two commercial partners, six academic institutions. The academic partners include: Prof. Karel Angelis of the Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic), Prof. Jerzy Paszkowski of the University of Geneva (Switzerland), Prof. Holger Puchta of Karlsruhe University (Germany) and Prof. Charles White of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France).

Dr Hagai Karchi, Evogene's VP of R&D stated: "We are pleased to participate in this consortium with such an elite group of partners. The TAGIP partnership will provide Evogene with additional state-of-the art tools for precise engineering of plant genomes. We anticipate that all our projects can benefit from those tools, in particular, we will evaluate the use of the technology for our Plant Manufactured Protein project."

Dr Pascual Perez, Biogemma's Research Coordinator: "The technology is designed to allow the introduction of genes in plants in a targeted area of the genome, which can significantly improve the speed at which modified plants can be developed, minimizing the transformation position effect, and thereby simplifying the regulatory process. This program is therefore of particular interest for the whole seed industry. "

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