Bayer to develop drought-tolerant cotton
Bayer CropScience AG is to work with Canada-based Performance Plants to develop and commercialise drought-tolerant cotton using Performance Plants’ Yield Protection Technology (YPT).
The agreement follows several years of field trials carried out by Performance Plants, which have shown YPT to be effective in preserving yields under conditions of drought stress. In five years of field trials, YPT canola has produced consistent seed yield increases of up to 26%.
“Our results and those of other partners we work with continue to show the yield-protecting benefits of our drought-tolerance technology. We are pleased that Bayer CropScience will now extend these results to cotton, a crop whose yield is frequently limited by insufficient rainfall. This agreement is further validation of the commercial potential of our traits,” said Peter Matthewman, president and chief executive officer at Performance Plants.
