http://www.xconomy.c...eal-with-bayer/Which leads back to Sirtris’s announcement. The company said it’s granting Bayer CropScience the exclusive, worldwide rights to agricultural applications of “a certain Sirtris technology that contributes to cellular life span extension and stress resistance.” Bayer intends to pursue the technology as one possible way of increasing crop yields and stress resistance in crops such as canola, cotton, rice, and corn. “The object of Bayer CropScience’s global research activities is to develop a new generation of stress-tolerant, high-yielding varieties,” says Utz Klages, a Bayer CropScience spokesperson whom I reached in Monheim, Germany. “These crops have to be protected against a wide variety of abiotic and biotic stress factors. As Sirtris is also working in this field, it makes the agreement very attractive for Bayer CropScience.”
I have always wondered if the knotweed was shock treated with fungus before harvesting to increase the resv content in the plant. At anyrate, TG plants with resveratrol in them sounds like a deal for both plants and humans.
Edited by lucid, 13 March 2008 - 04:14 PM.
