Evogene
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| Public | |
| Traded as | : EVGN : EVGN |
| Industry | Agrotechnology |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Founder | Dr. Hagai Karchi and Dr. Rafi Meissner |
| Headquarters | Rehovot, Israel |
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Key people
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Martin Gerstel, Chairman of Board, Ofer Haviv, President & CEO |
| Revenue |
 3.9 million dollars (First quarter, 2014) |
 2.6 million dollars (First quarter, 2014) |
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0.4 million dollars (First quarter, 2014) |
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Number of employees
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200 (2014) |
| Subsidiaries | Evofuel |
| Website | www |
Evogene Ltd. (Hebrew: אבוג'ן) is an Israeli company engaged in research and development for improving crop quality, productivity and economics, through application of plant genomics, for the food, feed and biofuel industries. The Company has strategic collaborations with world-leading agricultural companies to develop improved seed traits in relation to yield and a-biotic stress (such as tolerance to drought), and biotic stress (such as resistance to disease), in key crops as corn, soybean, wheat and rice.
Evogene focuses on four key fields for its future growth: I. Improving yield and abiotic stress tolerance traits for key agricultural crops. II.Improving disease, insects and other biotic stress resistance traits III. agrochemistry (the interface between chemicals and plants) IV. Develop non-food feedstock for biodiesel through its subsidiary, Evofuel.
The company employs about 200 workers in various fields, of them 85% are engaged in research and development. The multidisciplinary team includes computer experts, biologists, geneticists, agronomists and others. Evogene has its main offices and compound of laboratories in Rehovot, Israel. The company also has greenhouses and other plant growing sites throughout Israel.
The company cooperates with some of the leading seed companies around the world, among them, Syngenta, DuPont, Monsanto and Bayer CropScience, in order to develop and commercialize its technology.
Evogene's performs the biotechnological procedure of seed development in several stages. For this end, the company has been developing computational technology for detecting genes and DNA sequences that could improve one or more of the certain plant's qualities. The company's method of work starts with mapping and prioritizing the genes, then examining the impact of these genes and gene sequences on the plant in order to improve actual features of the certain plant. The company focuses on agricultural and industrial needs and also on the alternative energy industry.
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