IPP signed a cooperation agreement for overseas exclusive agency of ATaiLing, the first plant immune protein pesticide in China, with Arysta LifeScience (ALS) at her headquarters in USA on 22 February, 2016. Mr. WEN Xue, the Deputy Director General of IPP-CAAS, Ms. Paula, the Manager for Global Market, and Mr. Georges, the Chief Technology Officer, Arysta LifeScience, signed the agreement.

ATaiLing is a protein biological pesticide which can induce plant immunity. Aimed at the characteristics of plant disease occurrence and the resistance mechanisms of plants, Dr. QIU Dewen, the Deputy Director General of IPP, and his team obtained the product after decades' devoted study. ATaiLing has obtained national patent and pesticide registration. ATaiLing can enhance plant immunity, regulate the growth of plants, and control diseases caused by viruses, fungi, bacteria and even physiological factors. The effect of yield increase is obvious after applying ATailing. The sales were over 70 million yuans RMB in 2014 when it was first launched in domestic market. Embodied the creation in control of crop diseases in China, ATaiLing harvested wide favorable comments and passed the certification for organic inputs due to its originality and excellent market performance.

As a leading company in crop protection and life science, ALS, USA, provides the market in more than 125 countries with products in crop protection and life science. The agreement gives ALS access to the protein technologies as well as all related end-use formulations and the right to develop new solo formulations and mixtures. This supplements further ALS's demands for investment increase in bio-control products and is conducive to provide richer sole active ingredient and active ingredient combinations to overseas growers. ALS started to contact IPP in 2014 and initiated a comprehensive investigation and evaluation in global market, named as Green Tea Project, in January 2015. Omnibearing multi-batch trials were implemented by screening station Saint Malo, France. Samples were analyzed indoors and tested in the fields in eight countries in America, Africa and Asia. The results from 35 tests indicate that ATaiLing can effectively enhance plant immunity, control the occurrence of plant diseases, facilitate the growth of plant root system and is safe to environment and free of residue. ALS sent experts to China for investigations and communications for three times. The experts visited citrus orchards and vegetable fields to see the effect of ATaiLing after the applications and collected feedbacks from the market. After several rounds of thorough discussion and negotiation, ALS decided to be the overseas sole agent of ATaiLing after the strict analyses and assessment.

As the first sale by agent in crop disease control and biological pesticide in the field of agriculture between China and USA, the two parties expressed confidence and expectation. Both sides hope to promote the rapid global extension and utilization of ATaiLing through the collaboration between Chinese research institution and large international pesticide enterprise. They hope that this cooperation becomes a successful model for Chinese research achievement to go to global and opens up a new dimension in international cooperation.