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Limagrain licenses Qi Biodesign genome-editing

2026-08-04 — Limagrain signed a worldwide licensing agreement with Beijing-based Qi Biodesign for CRISPR nuclease technology and future genome-editing tools…

Limagrain licenses Qi Biodesign genome-editing

Limagrain signed a worldwide licensing agreement with Beijing-based Qi Biodesign, giving it immediate access to a proprietary CRISPR nuclease plus a framework for future technologies from Qi Biodesign's pipeline.

The licence covers field and vegetable crop breeding programmes. Crops, traits and financial terms were not disclosed.

Limagrain licenses Qi Biodesign genome-editing technologies worldwide for crop breeding

Limagrain signed a worldwide licensing agreement with Beijing-based Qi Biodesign for CRISPR nuclease technology and future genome-editing tools for field and vegetable crop breeding.

By Dirk Vandenhirtz

· Biologicals · France / China · 2 min

Limagrain signed a worldwide licensing agreement with Beijing-based Qi Biodesign, giving it immediate access to a proprietary CRISPR nuclease plus a framework for future technologies from Qi Biodesign's pipeline.

The licence covers field and vegetable crop breeding programmes. Crops, traits and financial terms were not disclosed.

Source: Seed World

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