Dow AgroSciences, Radiant Collaborate On Natural Products For Crop Protection

(RTTNews) - Dow AgroSciences, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Chemical Co. (DOW), and Radiant Genomics announced a research and development (R&D) collaboration agreement to discover novel natural products for application in crop protection products.

The collaboration combines proprietary metagenomic and engineering-biology technologies from Radiant Genomics with Dow AgroSciences' natural products discovery and product development capabilities to deliver new products from naturally derived chemistries.

The technology employed by Radiant Genomics will enhance Dow AgroSciences' natural product lead generation and optimization process. Working together, the combined expertise can help to bring new crop protection products to the market sooner.