Syngenta Thrive - 4Q/2013 - 13

watch video on the advanced Crop lab.

Innovation Station
The Syngenta Advanced Crop Lab provides researchers with
high-tech tools to develop tomorrow’s crop solutions.
BY CHRIS TUTINO | PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALEX MANESS

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magine a place where Midwestern corn grows in one room while Brazilian
soybeans and Chinese rice grow next door. Or where only a wall separates
desert-like drought conditions from a cool, steady rain.
The new $72 million Advanced Crop Lab at the Syngenta Innovation Center in
Research Triangle Park (RTP), N.C., is that place. With more than 40 different growth
environments, the facility enables Syngenta researchers to develop and test its broad
portfolio of crops and breakthrough traits across a wide range of field conditions at
one central location.
“What stands out to me is the capability the Crop Lab gives us to grow crops in
diverse climates and environmental conditions because that’s what farmers live every
day,” says Roy Gorena, a Syngenta sales representative from eastern North Carolina.
“The ability to grow crops in any type of environment without having to wait for a

Left: Hua-Ping Zhou examines
young soybean plants in one of
the climate-controlled growth
chambers of the Syngenta
Advanced Crop Lab in Research
Triangle Park (RTP), N.C.
Below: The Advanced Crop Lab
in RTP, N.C.
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