Shanghai, China
October 19, 2006

The agreement for long-term cooperation between the Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS) and Keygene, a Wageningen-based life science company in the Netherlands was signed by Vice President of SIBS Gan Rongxing and Keygene President Arjen J. van Tunen on Oct. 10 in Shanghai. Also present at the ceremony were Shanghai Vice Mayor Yan Junqi and the Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade Karien van Genni.

Keygene is the largest service provider in the genetic analysis of plants, animals and micro-organisms. The collaboration between the two sides is expected to promote the collaboration of the two sides in the development of agricultural biotechnology.