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Bayer CropScience and French research organization CNRS step up collaboration

Bayer CropScience and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris have renewed a framework agreement signed in 2005. The new, joint research projects pursued under this agreement are intended to contribute to ensuring a sustainable food supply for a growing world population against the background of climate change. Over the next four years, the company will invest some €4 million in joint projects. This funding will support basic research projects at a number of CNRS institutions throughout France. One of them is the “mixed laboratory” with a team of about 20 researchers at the La Dargoire research campus operated by Bayer CropScience in Lyon. A multidisciplinary approach will be adopted to improving the stress tolerance of plants and finding ways to increase yields – areas in which several CNRS research teams are among the global leaders.