Key Player: Syngenta

While Syngenta (which includes Danisco A/S, Novaritis Corp. and Zeneca Limited) only has eight granted patents that recite rice sequences in their claims, we consider them to be a key player because of their involvement in the sequencing of the rice genome.

Syngenta has formed a number of business relationships with a wide array of biotech and agricultural companies as shown in the diagram on this page.