Source: Tom Polansek, ST. LOUIS DISPATCH, 3/20/18



Monsanto Co. will fund a new U.S. company that aims to develop crops using technology known as gene editing, rather than the genetic modification that helped the ag giant become the world’s biggest seed seller. Monsanto’s vice president of global biotechnology, Tom Adams, will leave the Creve Coeur-based company to become chief executive of the new firm, called Pairwise Plants, the companies told Reuters. He steps into the new role on April 1.

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