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| Company type | Fully Owned Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Agricultural Supplies |
| Founder | Eli Lilly and Company and Dow Chemical Company in 1989 |
| Successor | Corteva |
| Headquarters | , |
| Products | Insecticide, Herbicide, Fungicide, Fumigant and Seed Technologies |
| Parent | Dow Chemical Company |
| Website | www.dowagro.com |
Dow AgroSciences LLC was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dow Chemical Company specializing in not only agricultural chemicals such as pesticides,[1] but also seeds and biotechnology solutions.[2] The company was based in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the United States. On 31 January 2006, Dow AgroSciences announced that it had received regulatory approval for the world's first plant-cell-produced vaccine against Newcastle disease virus from USDA Center for Veterinary Biologics.[3] Dow AgroSciences operates brand names such as Sentricon, Vikane, Mycogen®, SmartStax®, Enlist™, Pfister Seed®, PhytoGen®, Prairie Brand Seed®, Alforex Seeds®, Profume, Dairyland Seed®, and Brodbeck Seed®.
Dow AgroSciences also produces Omega-9 canola and sunflower oils.
In 2017, the Dow Chemical Company merged into DowDuPont[4] and in April 2019, the company's parent, Dow Inc. was separated into a public company via a corporate spin-off. The Dow AgroSciences business unit remained with DowDuPont and was spun off into Corteva Inc, on June 3, 2019.[5]
In October 2011, the U.S. Justice Department announced that a biotech specialist at Cargill had pleaded guilty to stealing information from Cargill and Dow AgroSciences. Kexue Huang, a Chinese national, was discovered to be passing information back to China from Dow for at least 3 years, from 2007 to 2010.[6]
Dow AgroSciences unit was divested to be part of a new company Corteva.[7]
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On 31 January 2006, Dow AgroSciences LLC announced that it had received the world's first regulatory approval for a plant-made vaccine from the United States Department of Agriculture. The developed plant-made vaccine combats Newcastle Disease Virus
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