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Agriculture

Enko and Bayer sign crop protection deal

by Craig Bettenhausen
July 31, 2021 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 99, Issue 28

 

A photo of the weed Palmer amaranth.
Credit: North Dakota State University
Crop protection companies calll Palmer amaranth the king of weeds.

Just a month after signing a similar deal with Syngenta, Enko is teaming up with Bayer to apply pharmaceutical discovery methods to finding crop protection chemicals. Enko says it uses machine learning to quickly vet more than 140 billion molecules, looking for hits that interact with enzymes in target pests but not with enzymes in humans or other nonpest organisms. In the deal with Bayer, Enko will focus on suppressing weeds that are common globally.

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