Pasteuria Bioscience

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Syngenta Launches First Commercial Product Since Pasteuria Acquisition

Syngenta, a Swiss agribusiness company, has launched its first commercial product since acquiring Alachua-based Pasteuria Bioscience in September 2012 for $113 million. The breakthrough seed treatment, CLARIVA, is based on Pasteuria technology and will act as a nematicide. CLARIVA consists of naturally occurring soil bacteria that causes a negative effect on nematodes: microscopic worm-shaped soil...
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Biotechnology Celebration Draws Hundreds to Network, Recognize Advances

By Caitlyn Finnegan From the steadily expanding core of Progress Corporate Park in Alachua, home to nationally recognized biotechnology companies like RTI Biologics and Nanotherapeutics, there are views of country roads and sprawling fields of green pasture – not always the first thing that comes to mind when discussing breakthrough biomedical discoveries and research. But...

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