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Bayer CropScience milestones

  • 2008

    Spirotetramat – New insecticidal active ingredient Spirotetramat launched in the United States and Canada as first key markets (Movento®).

  • 2008

    Pyrasulfotole – Herbicidal active ingredient with a new mode of action for the control of a broad range of dicotyledonous weeds in cereals introduced in Canada, Australia and the USA (Infinity™, Huskie®, Precept®).

  • 2007

    Tembotrione - Bayer CropScience receives first regulatory approval for its new active ingredient tembotrione in Austria (Laudis®)

  • 2007

    Acquisition of Stoneville Pedigreed Seed Co. (Cotton seed)

  • 2007

    Flubendiamide - New insecticidal active ingredient Flubendiamide granted regulatory approval in major Asian markets

  • 2006

    Two acquisitions advance Bayer CropScience’s US cotton platform: Assets of California Planting Cotton Seed (CPCSD), Bakerfield, California. Assets of Reliance Genetics, Harlington Texas

  • 2006

    Bayer CropScience acquires rights to FMC Corporation´s insecticides discovery pipeline.

  • 2006

    O-TEQ® - New formulation technology for insecticides from Bayer CropScience for enhanced plant protection.

  • 2005

    Fluopicolide - first registrations for the new downy mildew fungicide fluopicolide in the UK and China

  • 2005

    Acquisition of Associated Farmers Delinting, Littlefield, Texas

  • 2005

    Odesi® - Launch of an innovative formulation technology for herbicides based on oil dispersion launched.

  • 2004

    Acquisition of Crompton Corporation’s 50% holding in the Gustafson seed treatment company in order to achieve full ownership.

  • 2004

    Inauguration of the new plant biotechnology innovation center in Gent, Belgium.

  • 2004

    Prothioconazole – an innovative fungicide successfully launched under the brand name Proline®.

  • 2003

    Clothianidin – a new insecticidal seed treatment compound launched under the brand name Poncho®.

  • 2002

    Bayer CropScience formed through Bayer's acquisition of Aventis CropScience.

  • 2001

    Mikado® (sulcotrione) herbicide and Flint® (trifloxystrobin) fungicide line acquired by Bayer Crop Protection.

  • 2000

    Aventis CropScience formed through merger of AgrEvo and Rhône-Poulenc Agro.

  • 1999

    Proagro, based in Gurgaon (India), acquired by AgrEvo.

  • 1996

    Plant Genetic Systems (PGS) research center in Gent (Belgium) acquired by AgrEvo.

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[ last update: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 ]