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and cereals, and seed protection account management forkey North Dakota and western seed companies. Weber willbe based in Noblesville, Ind., and will manage Inovate as wellas work with sales organization and seed protection accountmanagement for key Midwest seed companies. As the seedprotection team expands, Glen Karaffa will shift his focus tosupport the growing Valent rice, cereals and sorghum seedprotection portfolio.Product NewsSyngenta has announced that spinosad insecticide is nowavailable for use on onions as a seed treatment. Spinosad willbe available exclusively as a component of FarMore FI500, aninsecticide/fungicide seed treatment technology containingseparately registered products. The registration of spinosadas a seed treatment for protection against onion maggotsmarks the first commercially available product offer derivedfrom the 2008 agriculture chemical research and developmentcollaboration between Syngenta and Dow AgroSciences.The J. R. Simplot Company’s Plant Sciences businesshas announced its new Innate Technology, the all-nativebiotechnology platform for improving crops, leading to new,better and healthier foods. Innate Technology is a patentedplant biotechnology process that works with a plant’s owngenes to enhance desirable traits and to decrease lessdesirable traits. Innate Technology precisely targets particulartraits without introducing foreign DNA. Simplot’s firstapplication of Innate Technology has been submitted to theUnited States Department of Agriculture for regulatory review.Soybean growers now have access to a revolutionarybiological mode of action to help protect their crop fromnematodes, as well as other pests, as part of an agreementannounced by Bayer CropScience LP and MonsantoCompany. Offered with Monsanto’s Acceleron seedtreatment products for soybeans, Poncho/VOTiVO seedtreatment from Bayer combines a seed-applied insecticidewith a new living-barrier approach to nematode protection.Under the agreement, Monsanto will have rights tocommercialize Poncho/VOTiVO on seed from its AsgrowtheChannel brand and regional brands, as well as to sell theproduct through its seed licensees, which include numerousindependent seed companies across the United States.Business NewsSyngenta has entered into an exclusive global technologypartnership with Pasteuria Bioscience Inc., a U.S.-basedbiotechnology company. Under the terms of the agreement,the two companies will develop innovative bio-nematicideproducts based on the naturally occurring soil bacteriaPasteuria spp. This group of bacteria controls nematodesacross a broad variety of crops. Jointdevelopment will initially focus on seedtreatment products for controllingsoybean cyst nematodes. Syngentaand Pasteuria aim to launch their firstproduct within two years.The Makhteshim Agan Group andIsagro Company have reached anagreement for the exclusive licenseof the active ingredient kiralaxyl forseed dressing applications globally.According to the agreement, MAIwill have the rights to register,develop and market mixtures andformulations based on kiralaxyl forthe seed dressing market. Isagro willcontinue to manufacture and holdregistrations for the active ingredientof kiralaxyl. The agreement also allowsfor the development and registration ofproducts to better address customerneeds in the segment of seed dressing,predominantly in North America.Bayer CropScience and the privatelyownedcompany RAGT SemencesS.A.S., based in Rodez, France,34 Seed World