Dow AgroSciences announces early exercise of option for commercial license with Sangamo BioSciences for plants

摘要

Dow AgroSciences announced at the 2008 BIO International Convention that it has exercised its option to obtain a commercial license to zinc finger technology from Richmond,CA,based Sangamo BioSciences(Sangamo).The license allows Dow AgroSciences to commercialise products incorporating or developed from plant cells using Sangamo's zinc finger DNA-binding protein(ZFP)technology,in agricultural crops,industrial products and plant-derived biopharmaceuticals.Sangamo and Dow AgroSciences have been collaborating in research to apply ZFP technology to plants under a three-year research and commercial license option agreement initiated in October 2005.