January 1st, 2002

CropDesign and Plant Bioscience Ltd. in License Agreement


CropDesign and Plant Bioscience Ltd. (PBL) signed a broad license agreement concerning the latter's AMPLICON, AMPLICON-PLUS, and related technologies for application in protein over-expression in plants. CropDesign has exclusive worldwide rights to AMPLICON and AMPLICON PLUS for the production of industrial-type enzymes and proteins in plants. In addition, CropDesign is granted non-exclusive rights to the technologies in the area of production of pharmaceutical products in plants. (see press release)