Ginkgo Bioworks extends partnership with Bayer

Ginkgo Bioworks (DNA) announced that the company has extended its multi-year strategic partnership with Bayer to advance research and development of biological products for agriculture. With the extension of this partnership, which began in 2017, both parties will build on the success of their ongoing collaboration to develop innovative microbial nitrogen fixation. As with the original agreement, Bayer retains the right to commercialize the resulting biological products as a complement to synthetic fertilizers in the coming years. Bayer continues to be a major partner of Ginkgo Bioworks’ expanded agricultural biologicals platform, which includes Ginkgo’s Agriculture Biologicals Research & Development site in West Sacramento.