Lubbock: Bayer CropScience Seeds $16M research center

​LUBBOCK – The Bayer CropScience Lubbock Seeds Innovation Center has
opened at 3316 Ninth St., increasing Bayer’s relationship with Texas
Tech.

The center will host the Bayer CropScience global cotton
business operations, as well as laboratories and research facilities,
including a 50,000-sf greenhouse.

The entire center is 100,000 sf
and was built for $16 million to boost seed research and innovation for
cotton, soybean and canola.

The center will research breeding,
trait development and quality, health safety and environmental testing.
Research efforts will focus on improving varieties of cotton, cotton
variety traits, development of herbicide- and insect-tolerant traits and
improved fiber and yield.