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Affy, Monsanto to Co-Develop Arabidopsis Array

Mar 26, 2002

NEW YORK, March 26 - Affymetrix and Monsanto on Tuesday said they plan to co-develop a single microarray that represents the Arabidopsis genome.

Monsanto said it will use this new array as part of its high-throughput discovery program.

 

The ag-bio giant also has licensed Affy's GeneChip technology to study plant development and disease.
 
Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.

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