Zoom imageNunhems employee Kelly Peeters inspects young plants.
Bayer CropScience’s vegetable seed subsidiary Nunhems is investing €12 million in the expansion and modernization of its research center at Leudal in the Netherlands to allow faster and more efficient development of vegetable seed varieties. The existing research building will be enlarged from 2,200 square meters to a total size of 6,400 square meters and will be equipped with state-of-the-art laboratories for Nunhems’ biotech services, including DNA analyses, and also for seed technology, cell biology and molecular breeding. The extended and modernized facilities are scheduled to be operational by the end of 2011.
Says Dr. Joachim Schneider, Head of the BioScience business unit of Bayer CropScience: “By upgrading our research facilities, we will be in an even better position to develop innovative vegetable seed varieties with good yields, disease resistance and excellent quality.”