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Released: 14-May-2020 8:20 AM EDT
Benson Hill Contracts 30,000 Acres of Premium Soybean for 2020
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Benson Hill’s non-GMO soybean product line combines superior nutritional qualities and oil content with highly competitive yields, offering benefits from seed-to-shelf.

3-Dec-2019 3:05 PM EST
Crop Innovation Company Introduces New Seed Company Focused on High-Performance Food & Feed Grade Soybeans
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Benson Hill today announced the launch of Benson Hill Seeds, a business focused on delivering superior seeds to meet the evolving needs of the growing human food and animal feed markets, including the eMerge Genetics portfolio of non-GMO soybean varieties.

Released: 22-Jul-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Diverse Team Assembles to Protect Iconic US Crop from Climate Change
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Using deep learning techniques, we can analyze the effects of weather variability on soybean yield and protein production and work to develop high protein varieties that can withstand the stresses associated with changing climates.

Released: 3-Jun-2019 8:05 AM EDT
RiceTec and Benson Hill Collaborate to Explore New Technologies for Rice Improvement
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Benson Hill Biosystems, a crop improvement company unlocking the natural diversity of plants, and RiceTec, a leader in hybrid rice seed technologies, announced prior to the kick off of the Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) Conference at Shenzhen, China, the licensing agreement for the use of Benson Hill’s technologies as part of RiceTec’s rice research and development operations.

21-May-2019 4:05 PM EDT
Brazilian Biodiversity Leader and Benson Hill Expand Partnership to Advance Crop Breeding
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“We are eager to expand our relationship with Benson Hill and use CropOS to advance breeding for farmers across Latin America.” said Cleber Soares, executive director for Innovation and Technology of Embrapa. “Our work together has demonstrated their commitment to collaboration and appreciation for the power of genetic diversity to help solve big global challenges in a sustainable way.”

Released: 7-May-2019 11:00 AM EDT
Growing Ag and Food Tech Company Establishes St. Louis Headquarters with Expanded Footprint
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“We chose to expand our presence in St. Louis because of its leadership in plant science and commitment to innovation,” said Matthew Crisp, CEO and co-founder of Benson Hill.

19-Mar-2019 8:05 AM EDT
Benson Hill Biosystems Acquires Schillinger Genetics, Expanding High Quality Soybean Options
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Benson Hill Biosystems, a crop improvement company unlocking the natural diversity of plants, announced today at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit that it has acquired the assets of Schillinger Genetics, also known as eMerge Genetics, an Iowa-based company currently delivering novel high-yielding, high-protein non-GMO soybean varieties.

23-Feb-2019 6:05 PM EST
California Hemp Corporation Enters Sponsored Research Agreement with UC Davis Utilizing Benson Hill’s CropOS™ to Optimize Breed in Industrial Hemp
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Scientists at UC Davis will utilize data from Hungry Planet Intelligence and Benson Hill Biosystems’ computational platform Breed, powered by CropOS™ to predict combinations for seed optimization.

   
23-Jan-2019 2:05 PM EST
Benson Hill Strategically Partners with the World’s Largest Brewer, AB InBev to Improve Barley Quality and Sustainability Worldwide
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“For AB InBev, brewing quality beer starts with the best ingredients. That requires a healthy environment and thriving communities,” said Gary Hanning, Global Director of Barley Research at AB InBev. “Benson Hill’s powerful Breed application positions us at the forefront of innovation to develop more resilient and sustainable varieties of barley for growers and the best quality malt for our brewers.”

   
Released: 14-Jan-2019 8:05 AM EST
Benson Hill Teams Up with The African Orphan Crops Consortium to Combat Malnutrition Through Underutilized Crops
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“The goal of AOCC is to improve the productivity and sustainability of highly nutritious crops that are critical to the health and livelihood of African farmers and consumers through the adoption of modern breeding methods,” Howard-Yana Shapiro, Chief Agricultural Officer, Mars, Incorporated.

Released: 10-Jan-2019 11:05 AM EST
Benson Hill Biosystems Expands Commercial Team to Meet Growing Opportunity
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Benson Hill has more than doubled its employee base since 2017 and continues its growth trajectory with career opportunities across technical, commercial and other functional roles.

Released: 11-Dec-2018 11:00 AM EST
Industrial Biotech Leader to Use Benson Hill’s Cpf1 and Cms1 Genome Editing Portfolio Across its Business Segment
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Benson Hill empowers organizations of any size across the agri-food value chain to benefit from the most advanced tools in genomic innovation, including the largest portfolio of Cpf1 and Cms1 nucleases in industry.

Released: 11-Oct-2018 4:05 PM EDT
Mars Taps Benson Hill’s Crop Design Platform to Help Protect Cacao from Climate Change
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“We want to enable farmers to produce more cocoa from less land,” said Dr. Howard Shapiro, Chief Agricultural Officer of Mars. “Benson Hill has built an impressive data and machine learning platform designed to provide insights that can improve crops faster.

15-May-2018 9:30 AM EDT
Groundbreaking New Trait Partnership Announced to Provide Greater Choice to Farmers
Benson Hill

This partnership between Beck's, the largest independent seed company in North America and Benson Hill Biosystems, is revolutionary for the agriculture industry in a couple of ways: It will deliver the first photosynthetic efficiency trait to the market, and it represents a novel channel for the development and delivery of biotech traits.

Released: 28-Feb-2018 9:20 AM EST
Brazilian Research Leader Embrapa Taps Benson Hill Biosystems Genome Editing Capabilities to Modernize Crop Improvement
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Brazilian research leader Embrapa, one of the largest plant biodiversity and crop science institutions in the world, announced a partnership to leverage Benson Hill Biosystem’s cutting edge genome editing capabilities to further modernize its R&D programs. The partnership will tap Benson Hill’s knowledge and CRISPR 2.0 and 3.0 nucleases to leverage the natural genetic diversity of plants and accelerate progress in climate resilience, disease resistance and other sustainability targets across multiple crop species.

Released: 20-Feb-2018 4:05 PM EST
Benson Hill Biosystems Receives Patent for Novel CRISPR Technology
Benson Hill

Benson Hill Biosystems, a crop improvement company, has been granted a patent for its portfolio of genome editing nucleases. Benson Hill empowers companies across the agri-food value chain with a fully enabling genome editing system to tap natural genetic diversity as a source of differentiation in product development.

18-Oct-2017 9:50 AM EDT
Benson Hill Biosystems Launches the First Fully Enabling Genome Editing System for Crop Improvement
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Benson Hill Biosystems today announced the commercial launch of Edit, powered by CropOS™, the first complete genome editing system made accessible to partners for the development of improved crops. Edit system combines the analytical power of Benson Hill’s CropOS™ computational platform with a robust portfolio of novel genome editing nucleases to create the first comprehensive genome editing system. Edit is designed to optimize plant characteristics such as flavor profiles, nutrient-density, and environmental sustainability with greater speed and precision than previously possible.

11-Sep-2017 4:25 PM EDT
Benson Hill Biosystems Launches Novel Genome Editing CRISPR 3.0 Technology
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Cms1 CRISPR Nuclease Available to Partners to Drive Crop Improvement

   

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