As one Defra agency appears to be finally learning the painful lessons of IT rollouts gone wrong, another seems to have walked into the same trap. Cibus granted patent for glyphosate-tolerant plants
CROP trait development business Cibus Global has been granted a patent from the European Patent Office for use of its Rapid Trait Development System in the production of non-transgenic, glyphosate-tolerant plants destined for the European market.
“This patent marks a significant milestone for Cibus and the European farming community,” says Stephen Evans Freke, Cibus Global chairman. The company signed a strategic development alliance with crop protection business Makhteshim Agan in September 2009.
“We and our European partners believe European farmers will increasingly demand non-GM, glyphosate-tolerant crops, and that Cibus-developed products will become the standard-bearer for crops that meet this demand and are accepted as such by farmers and consumers,” he says.
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Jim Fuller | 8 April 2010 6:28 pm
Thank yoiu for the article on Cibus Global and the patent for glyphosate-tolerant plants, will be interesting to see data from the RTD system.
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