b'INDUSTRY NEWSTAILORED TO SEED PROFESSIONALS, INDUSTRY NEWS DELIVERS THE PEOPLE, RESEARCH, BUSINESS AND PRODUCT NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW. SUBMISSIONS ARE WELCOME. EMAIL US AT NEWS@SEEDWORLDGROUP.COM.Bayer announced that the company has closed the previouslyin that countrys sorghum industry. announced transaction with Ginkgo Bioworks to begin a mul-ti-year strategic partnership to accelerate research and development of biological products for agriculture. The trans- Forty years ago, East-West Seed was founded by Simon N. action includes the divestment of Bayers West SacramentoGroot to develop quality seeds specifically for use in tropical Biologics Research & Development site, and its internal dis- climates. The first research and breeding program was estab-covery and lead optimization platform. With the close of thislished in the Philippines in 1982. Since then, East-West Seed has transaction, the Biologics business, which is part of Bayersexpanded across Asia and to Africa and Latin America. They Crop Science Division, will also be able to further engage thenow serve 23 million farmers in 70 countries with 973 improved open innovation ecosystem and build upon its leading positionvarieties of 60 vegetable crops. Guiding farmers on agricultural as partner of choice for innovators and scientists around thetechniques has been a part of East-West Seed since the begin-world. ning. In 2016, East-West Seed Knowledge Transfer Foundation was registered as a separate legal entity to focus solely on train-ing smallholder farmers. In honor of their 40th anniversary, East-Researchers in a Kansas State University innovation lab thatWest Seed has published a new book, 40 Farmers, 40 Years of develops technologies to improve the resiliency of sorghumEast-West Seed, and has created four short videos celebrating and millet production have received $750,000 to spur thethe farmers who are at the heart of their work. crops production and value in Madagascar. Officials with the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Sorghum and Millet (SMIL) said the project will take a look atScientists at James Hutton Institute have been awarded over every aspect of the value chainfrom production in farmers13million from the Scottish Governments Just Transition fields to its eventual use in food and other productsin hopesfund to establish two pioneering action-based research science of addressing the crippling effects of climate and droughtprojects in the North East of Scotland. HydroGlen and theJust 38IEUROPEAN SEEDIEUROPEAN-SEED.COM'