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Hexima Announces Successful Field Trials
Thursday August 27, 2009, 9:29 am

Original Announcement: Successful Field Trials

Hexima announced its third consecutive year of positive results in cotton field trials of its anti-fungal disease technology, with the successful completion of the 2008/09 trials. The Company is currently expanding its technology in a range of crops, including corn, soy and canola. Hexima is collaborating with Pioneer Hi-Bred International, a DuPont subsidiary, to commercialise anti-fungal technology in corn and soy. The GM-cotton trials, conducted in the Darling Downs, Queensland against the important cotton fungal disease, Fusarium wilt, demonstrated that the GM-cotton with the anti-fungal trait had a 20% higher plant survival rate and lint yields that were more than two fold higher than the non-GM control. The next step for The Company's anti-fungal disease technology in cotton is to test the performance of the technology in germplasm with a higher natural resistance to disease, through a breeding agreement with CSIRO.

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