Mycogen Seeds

Mycogen Seeds

Type	Agriculture–Subsidiary
Industry	Agriculture
Founded	San Diego, California (1982)
Headquarters	Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Products	Hybrid and varietal seeds
Parent	Dow AgroSciences
Website	www.mycogen.com

Mycogen Seeds, headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, provides seeds for agriculture. Mycogen is one of the largest sunflower seed producers.^{[citation needed]} Mycogen produces, markets and sells hybrid seed corn. The company also markets and sells sorghum, sunflower, soybean, alfalfa, and canola.

The Mycogen Corporation was formed in 1982 by members of the San Diego business and scientific communities, including David H. Rammler, a partner in the venture capital firm of Vanguard Associates, who served as the first chairman of the company, and Andrew C. Barnes, a biochemist with an MBA from the Stanford School of Business. The original concept was to develop environmentally safe herbicides from fungi using genetic engineering, thus the name Mycogen, coined from the Greek words for fungus and genetics.^{[citation needed]}

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External links

• Official website
• DowAgroSciences