Evogene to Attend in Bank of America 2020 Global Agriculture and Materials Conference

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Feb 25, 2020, 07:00 ET

REHOVOT, Israel, Feb. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Evogene Ltd. (NASDAQ: EVGN) (TASE: EVGN.TA), a leading company in leveraging computational biology to design novel products for life-science-based industries including: human health, agriculture and industrial applications, announces today that Eran Kosover, CEO of AgPlenus, Evogene's subsidiary designing effective and sustainable crop protection products, will attend in the BofA 2020 Global Agriculture and Materials Conference taking place February 26^th – 27^th at the Conrad in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Mr. Kosover will be participating in a panel discussion: "Potential disruption to crop chemical outlook" on the Wednesday, 26^th of February 2020 at 09:15 AM.

Conference participation is by invitation only and registration is mandatory. For more information or to schedule a one-on-one meeting, please contact your Bank of America representative.

About Evogene Ltd.

Evogene (NASDAQ:EVGN, TASE: EVGN.TA) is a leading company in leveraging computational biology, to design novel products for life-science-based industries including human health, agriculture, and industrial applications. Leveraging Big Data and Artificial Intelligence while incorporating a deep understanding of biology, Evogene established its unique technology, the Computational Predictive Biology (CPB) platform, to computationally design microbes, small molecules and genes as the core components for life-science products. Evogene holds a number of subsidiaries utilizing the CPB platform, for the development of human microbiome-based therapeutics, medical cannabis, ag-biologicals, ag-chemicals, seed traits and ag-solutions for castor oil production.

For more information, please visit www.evogene.com.

About AgPlenus Ltd.

AgPlenus, a fully owned subsidiary of Evogene Ltd. is designing effective and sustainable crop protection products by leveraging predictive biology. The Company aims to develop crop protection products: herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and crop enhancers. AgPlenus has ongoing collaborations with industry leaders such as BASF and ICL. For more information, please visit www.agplenus.com.

Forward Looking Statements

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Evogene Investor Contact:

Rivka Neufeld
Investor Relations and Public Relations Manager
E: [email protected]
T: +972-8-931-1940

US Investor Relations:

Joseph Green
Edison Group
E: [email protected]
T: +1-646-653-7030

Laine Yonker
Edison Group
E: [email protected]
T: +1-646-653-7035

SOURCE Evogene