February 14, 2024 2Blades Delivers on Project with Bayer Crop Science In Effort to Combat Asian Soybean Rust
April 5, 2023 2Blades and International Collaboration Publish the Annotated Genome Sequence of the Soybean Rust Pathogen
July 20, 2022 2Blades and Corteva Agriscience Reach Collaboration Milestone in Development of Durable Resistance for Latin American Soybean Varieties
January 21, 2022 Job Announcement: 2Blades Principal Investigator/Group Leader Position based at University of Minnesota
August 20, 2021 Chicago Council Blog by Diana Horvath – From Molecule to Market: Using Innovative Plant Breeding to Build Global Food Security
February 15, 2021 Bayer and 2Blades Foundation Extend Agreement into 2023 to bolster Asian Soybean Rust Research
January 4, 2021 Nature Biotechnology publishes 2Blades Foundation-supported research on wheat resistant to devastating rust fungal diseases
March 12, 2019 Wheat lines from 2Blades, CSIRO, and UMN exhibit exceptional stem rust resistance in the field
September 15, 2015 The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded 2Blades a $2.3 million grant to examine the diversity of resistance genes in plants.
September 10, 2015 2Blades awarded a funding contract from the Citrus Research and Development Foundation
December 18, 2014 Cellectis Plant Sciences and Two Blades Foundation Announce the Execution of a Cross-License Agreement on TAL Effector Nuclease Technologies
February 5, 2014 The Plant Management Network posted an educational webcast about bacterial spot-resistant tomatoes carrying the pepper Bs2 gene today as part of their Focus on Tomato series
February 3, 2014 2Blades and DuPont Pioneer announce a research collaboration to develop durable resistance against Asian Soybean Rust with partners at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa in Brazil and The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, UK
December 10, 2012 2Blades continues broad license access to its award-winning TAL technology through a non-exclusive license to Dupont Pioneer for uses in certain crops. Improvements to the technology will be granted back for 2Blades’ humanitarian projects benefiting subsistence farming.
November 7, 2012 2Blades’ TAL Code technology wins 2012 Agrow Award for Best Novel Agricultural Biotechnology
October 9, 2012 2Blades has signed a non-exclusive license with Mendel Biotechnology for the TAL code technology
September 11, 2012 2Blades collaborator Prof. John Scott of the University of Florida presented trial results on transgenic disease resistance in Florida tomato varieties last week at the annual Tomato Institute meeting
September 4, 2012 2Blades announces the expansion of rights to Monsanto under our non-exclusive license, announced in April, 2012, for broader access to the TAL Code technology. 2Blades will continue to receive a grant back of improvements to the technology for use in 2Blades’ humanitarian projects
August 11, 2012 Results of tomato field trials demonstrating bacterial spot resistance and yield improvement were published today in PLOS ONE
July 9, 2012 2Blades announces the completion of a non-exclusive license with KWS for access to the TAL Code technology. KWS will grant improvements in the technology back to 2Blades for subsistence farming applications.
May 1, 2012 2Blades is pleased to announce completion of a non-exclusive license agreement with Bayer CropScience for the TAL code genome engineering technology. 2Blades will receive improvements to the TAL code for use in its subsistence farming applications.
April 16, 2012 Monsanto has completed a non-exclusive license with 2Blades for commercial uses of the TAL Code technology in plants. Improvements to the technology will be granted back for 2Blades’ humanitarian projects benefiting subsistence farming
March 19, 2012 Services for TAL effector-based research tools were launched today by Life Technologies
January 16, 2012 2Blades announces the signing of a non-exclusive license for the TAL Code technology to Syngenta for commercial uses in crop plants. Syngenta will grant 2Blades access to its improvements to the technology for use in 2Blades’ humanitarian efforts to support subsistence farming.
June 10, 2011 2Blades announces the licensing of the plant rights for the TAL Effector Code to Life Technologies for research tool applications
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