TS seed startup to commercialise products from Israeli firm

TS seed startup to commercialise products from Israeli firm

The Hindu

Foragen Seeds, a forage seed startup based in Hyderabad, plans to commercialise products, in the next few years, from Israeli genomics AI firm NRGene’s crop breeding programme of maize, rice and chili-pepper in India. After evaluation of the germplasm licensed by NRGene and the creation of hybrids in the coming seasons, Foragen Seeds will launch new commercial products, co-founder and CEO Prabhakar Babu Gunturu said on Monday. He said this announcing that NRGene has signed an agreement to transfer its India-based eight-year-old crop breeding programme of maize, rice and chili-pepper to Foragen Seeds.
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