84 / SEEDWORLD.COM FEBRUARY 2019 IRRI South Asia Regional Centre (ISARC), located in Varanasi, India. Yield10 Bioscience named Sherri M. Brown, PhD, as a special commercial and technical advisor to the company, effective immediately. Brown is currently managing director of The Yield Lab, a global agrifood tech accelerator based in St. Louis. She previously served in a number of leadership positions involving the development and global commercialization of new biotechnology traits for canola, soybean and corn at Monsanto Company for 28 years. Aggio announced the addition of four industry innovators to its advisory board. They are: Gloria Basse, senior executive director with Tonisity and Senior Associate with The Context Network; Alexander Bisignano, CEO of Phosphorous, a firm that is building a genomic data network that will help providers, researchers and patients harness the power of the human genome; Juan Ferreira, former global senior vice president of Crop Protection, Seed Applied Solution-BioAg and Vegetable Seeds for Monsanto; and Santiago Munné, COO & co-founder of Overture Life and Adjunct Professor at Yale Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine. Germains Seed Technology announced that Victoria Lawrence has joined the company as the new managing director. In this role, she will lead Germains’ business operations and sales across all key markets and facilities in the UK, Netherlands, Spain and the United States. PRODUCT NEWS Darwin Perennials announced it will ship AutoStix options for its vegetative perennial offerings through Darwin Colombia effective immediately. AutoStix is the transplant technology developed by Visser Horti Systems (The Netherlands) that automates the process of sticking cuttings. Recent trials performed by Darwin Perennials with this labor-saving system has shown positive results, and the company is confident that more than 600 of its perennial varieties will work within the system. Nufarm Americas in partnership with Corteva Agriscience announced the inclusion of Nufarm’s Gin Out plant growth regulator in the 2019 PhytoGen Residual Rewards program. Gin Out is a plant growth regulator that modifies the cotton plant, reducing excessive cotton growth and increasing emphasis on boll development through its unique formulation of kinetin and mepiquat chloride. Ingenza announced that Syngenta is exercising its commercial licensing option for a technology that enables the development of innovative crop protection products. This enabling technology – the result of an initial collaboration between the two companies – was developed using Ingenza’s inABLE suite of proprietary gene expression and DNA recombination tools. SW