verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . february 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message dow agrosciences llc type fully owned subsidiary industry agricultural supplies founder eli lilly and company and dow chemical company in 1989 headquarters zionsville indiana united states products insecticide herbicide fungicide fumigant and seed technologies parent dow chemical company website www.dowagro.com dow agrosciences llc is a wholly owned subsidiary of the dow chemical company specializing in not only agricultural chemicals such as pesticides but also seeds and biotechnology solutions . the company is based in indianapolis indiana in the united states . on 31 january 2006 dow agrosciences announced that it had received regulatory approval for the world s first plant cell produced vaccine against newcastle disease virus from usda center for veterinary biologics . citation needed dow agrosciences operates brand names such as sentricon vikane mycogen smartstax pfister seed phytogen prairie brand seed profume renze seeds and triumph seed . dow agrosciences also produces omega 9 canola and sunflower oils . in october 2011 the u.s. justice department announced that a biotech specialist at cargill had pleaded guilty to stealing information from cargill and dow agrosciences . kexue huang a chinese national was discovered to be passing information back to china from dow for at least 3 years from 2007 to 2010 . 1 dow agosciences enlist weed control system is in the approval stage as of 2014 . dow agrosciences has recently received the registration of arylex active halauxifen methyl from the chinese institute for the control of agrochemicals ministry of agriculture icama . 2 references edit tom webb 2011 10 20 . a cargill scientist and a spy for china . twin cities pioneer press . china approves quelex the first herbicide with arylex active agropages apr. 28 2014 retrieved may 12th 2014 . external links edit dow agrosciences official website v t e genetic engineering genetically modified organisms crops maize mon 810 mon 863 starlink list of varieties of genetically modified maize potato amflora rice golden rice soybean roundup ready soybean vistive gold tomato flavr savr cotton bt cotton other apple arabidopsis brinjal canola papaya rose smartstax sugar beet tobacco trees wheat mammals mouse knockout mouse oncomouse enviropig herman the bull knockout rat other animals insects fish glofish salmon bacteria and viruses ice minus bacteria hepatitis b vaccine oncolytic virus processes inserting dna agrobacteria biolistics electroporation genetic transduction lipofection microinjection transfection types recombinant dna transgenesis cisgenesis uses in agriculture genetically modified food controversies pharming companies basf bayer dow agrosciences dupont pioneer monsanto syngenta in humans and diagnostics gene therapy genetic enhancement in research gene knockout gene knockdown gene targeting related articles transgene detection of genetically modified organisms genetic pollution genetic engineering in fiction human enhancement reverse transfection transhumanism regulation regulation of the release of gmos regulation of gmos in the european union regulation of gmos in switzerland cartagena protocol on biosafety geography us hawaii new zealand europe similar fields synthetic biology cloning stem cell research biology genetics biotechnology bioethics this united states manufacturing company related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title dow agrosciences & oldid 743483024 categories agriculture companies of the united statesbiotechnology companies of the united statescompanies based in indianapoliseli lilly and companyunited states manufacturing company stubshidden categories articles needing additional references from february 2015all articles needing additional referencesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from february 2015all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran aisportugu s edit links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 21 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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