Calendar Name: seminars
Scheduled for: Thursday, October 3 2013, 14:00 - 15:30
Event text: Korneel Vandenbroucke
Bayer CropScience
Gent
Belgium
Details: POSTDOC INNOVATION SEMINAR
�Inside Bayer CropScience: �To Propel Farming�s Future�
ABSTRACT
At Bayer CropScience, everything starts with local
insight. We dig deep into the specific issues farmers
face. What�s keeping them awake at night? Is it a new
pest or government regulations? Poor soil or lack of
water? The opportunities and challenges driving the
global agricultural community are as fascinating as they
are daunting. A rapidly growing world population
increases global demand for food, fiber as well as
renewable raw materials. Changes in our climate threaten
harvests and impact yields. Improving our living
standard worldwide comes with an ever increasing demand
for high-quality, healthy and affordable food. Such
challenges require sophisticated answers. Our corporate
promise �Bayer: Science for a Better Life� is the
foundation of what we at Bayer CropScience strive to
achieve within the agricultural industry. We have
extraordinary expertise, the passion and integrity of
farmers, the willingness to listen closely to our
customers� needs across the globe, and the vision to
foresee issues and seize opportunities across the entire
value chain. At Bayer CropScience, we foster an
environment of collaboration across different
disciplines at the intersection of chemistry and
biology, as well as across cultures and markets. Every
day, we bring together expertise in seeds, breeding,
crop protection biologics and chemistry as well as
environmental science solutions. We aim to create the
products and services to solve some of the key
challenges in agriculture. But even as an industry
leader, we will not be able to solve agriculture�s
challenges alone. Game-changing ideas need diversity in
experience, expertise and perspective to evolve, mature
and become reality. Part of our quest therefore is to
look ahead and beyond the current solutions and existing
partnerships towards even broader initiatives. Our
objective is to go beyond products, technologies, and
work with others to trigger great ideas. Our combined
R&D organization unites three areas: Small Molecules,
Biologics and Seeds � all cooperating to build a unique
position in plant health research. Our seeds business
unites the expertise of plant physiologists and
geneticists, of molecular and cellular biologists, of
bioinformaticians and breeding experts. The main purpose
of Seeds Research, located at innovation centra in RTP
and Ghent, is to discover new traits and bring them to
proof-of-concept. Our most important crops are soybeans,
wheat, cotton, oilseed rape, corn and rice. The trait
focus is on herbicide tolerance, insect control, yield
enhancement and drought tolerance. Furthermore, our work
on non-GM Traits supports the development of crop
varieties that match the requirements of the relevant
markets perfectly.
