Business Sector: Agriculture, Hybrid Seeds, Transgenic Plants
Major Product / Service: Biotechnology to produce high yielding, pest resistant crops
Nature of Activities: MRC is dedicated to leading-edge research in the areas of crop transformation and crop protection. The projects that have been pursued are synthetic gene construction, capsicum screening, regeneration and transformation, smart plants transformation, to develop a recombinant envelope-based diagnosis for Japanese Encephalitis Virus, developing an Agrobacterium based method of transforming selected Indian cultivars of peanut. Developing agricultural biotechnology products, from identifying a valuable plant gene to testing the trait in plants, to producing and commercializing elite varieties and hybrids with the trait.
Est: 1998
Corporate Address:
Monsanto India Limited
Ahura Centre, 5th Floor
96, Mahakali Caves Road
Andheri (East)
Mumbai,
Maharashtra
State: Maharashtra
P.I.N. #400093
Phone: 91-22 28246450 / 67029851
Fax: 91-22 28244707 / 67023361
Contact Email: information.india@monsanto.com
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