Alternative Technologies. Agricultural Biotechnology and plant
genomics.
Employees: 160
Overview
The agricultural activity of EVOGENE (formerly AGRO-LEADS), now
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being established as a separate company, was initiated in 1999 as
a division of Compugen, with the objective of overcoming the
limitations of both classical breeding and modern biotechnology
in order to generate improved crops and new agricultural
biotechnology products in an economically efficient way. This
objective is accomplished by integrating computational biology
and plant genomics with classical breeding approaches into
high-throughput platforms for the purpose of accelerating,
directing and mimicking the natural evolution process.
EVOGENE's high-throughput platforms utilize an extensive base of
proprietary and licensed technologies including Compugen's LEADS
computational biology platform, the Weizmann Institute of
Science's patent pending "tomato gene machine" for functional
genomics in plants, and various high-throughput processes for
molecular analysis of genomic components and other technologies
developed while the agricultural activities were a division
within Compugen.
EVOGENE's core product focus will be the development of seeds
with new and highly improved traits. In addition, an important
aspect of EVOGENE's business strategy will be collaborative
initiatives with other organizations in areas such as crop
protection products, nutritionally enhanced crops, and the use of
plants as factories for nutraceuticals, and industrial and
therapeutic products.
