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Our Pipeline
Delivering innovation to the farm is the focus of Monsanto’s R&D platform. Through investments in breeding and biotechnology, we’re working hard to deliver products that make farmers more productive and profitable. We invest more than $2 million a day to discover and deliver innovative technologies that make a difference to farmers and the land they farm. Our research supports both the agronomic and value-added needs of our customers.
Discovery
Our R&D research begins in our discovery engine. This work helps our researchers uncover the next frontier of plant improvements and technologies for our farmer customers. This research ensures that new product concepts are constantly feeding our crop portfolio. As projects graduate from our discovery engine, they are characterized by the benefits they ultimately can deliver to the farm including agronomic benefits and value-added benefits.
Our primary discovery areas include:
- Grain yield
- Grain quality
- Environmental stress tolerance
- Pest control
- Herbicide tolerance
- Disease resistance
- Lipid enhancements (increased oil, improved fatty-acid composition)
- Protein enhancements (improved amino-acid content)
- Carbohydrate enhancements
- Bioactive compounds
Agronomic Benefits(1)
These products work to deliver in-seed benefits like herbicide tolerance, disease resistance, insect protection, and yield enhancements. Our research aims to increase productivity or reduce input costs, improve protection from insects and disease, or enable a plant to combat environmental stresses like drought.
Value-Added Benefits(1)
These products work to support the growing food, feed and fuel demands of farmers’ customers such as processors and consumers. Our research focuses on greater efficiency and benefits for animal feed processors, ethanol and biodiesel plants, as well as nutritional improvements in oil and dietary components.
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