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Medicago, Mitsubishi in Plant Production Pact

Will explore hydroponic system in biopharma protein system

By: Gil Roth

President, Pharma & Biopharma Outsourcing Association

Medicago and Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp. (MCHC) have formed a collaboration agreement to develop a next-generation technology for plant production.  The objectives of the collaboration are to evaluate MCHC’s Plant Factory System, a closed cultivation system, to produce Nicotiana Benthamiana plants for protein production using Medicago’s technologies. MCHC has developed a Plant Factory System, a closed hydroponic system to grow plants, which is currently used for industrial sc...

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