Evogene Ltd. Launches Target Discovery Platform For Novel Herbicides

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REHOVOT, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Evogene Ltd. (NYSE: EVGN) (TASE: EVGN), a leading plant genomics company specializing in enhancing crop productivity for the food, feed and biofuel industries, announced today a key milestone in its discovery program for novel chemical herbicides with the launch of PoinTar, a computationally based target discovery platform for novel herbicides. Targets are key molecules, responsible for essential biological processes in weeds, which have the potential to be chemically inhibited to cause weed death.

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