Research & Innovation

Research at Bayer CropScience

In 2012, €782 million, or roughly 26 percent of the Bayer Group’s research and development budget, was spent at Bayer CropScience.

Major areas of focus – apart from crop protection research – include seeds and plant traits, the main aim here being to improve the agronomic characteristics and quality of crop plants. The technologies employed in this area comprise all the tools required to improve important crops such as cotton, canola and rice for producers and industry partners – from the identification of a target gene to the development of a plant.

Topical examples of active ingredients from research at Bayer CropScience are:

New active ingredient

Major brand name

Use

Planned launch

Fluopyram

Luna™

Developed to combat problematic plant diseases caused by fungal pathogens

Received approval in 2012

Penflufen

Evergol™

For the worldwide use as seed treatment on crops such as soybean, corn, potato, canola, rice and cereals

Received approval in 2012

Flupyradifurone

Sivanto™

Insecticide to control sucking pests such as aphids, cicadas and whiteflies in fruits, vegetables and broad-acre crops

Launch is scheduled for 2014/15

** Subject to regulatory approval

Well-prepared BioScience Pipeline set to bring new seed varieties with improved traits to Market until 2016

Topical examples of Seeds & Traits from research at Bayer CropScience are:

  • Cotton (brand: FiberMax™, Stoneville™): Superior fiber quality, high lint yield and adapted variety product lines per geography and industrial use;
  • Oilseeds (brand: InVigor™): Hybrid vigor resulting in top yields, superior agronomic characteristics, (crop establishment, plant size, disease tolerance, overall environmental response), vigorous early season growth, competes aggressively against weeds and uniform growth;
  • Rice (brand: Arize™): hybrid rice seeds offering superior yield advantage at high quality; new variety with resistance against bacterial leaf blight;
  • Vegetables (Nunhems): examples representing the success of our research and breeding efforts in vegetables seeds like the ‘world’s first non-leaking tomato’, melons with enhanced flavor, long-storage onions, high-yielding cucumber plants.

Further information on research at Bayer CropScience can be found in our research scientific magazine:

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