Evogene Ltd. (NYSE; TASE: EVGN), a leading plant genomics company specializing in enhancing crop productivity for the food, feed and biofuel industries, announced today that Assaf Oron, Evogene's Executive Vice President Strategy and Business Development, will participate at the AgTech Investment Summit taking place at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City on Thursday, May 1st, 2014.

Mr. Oron will take part at the 'Inputs: Seeds, Crop Protection, Plant Nutrition' panel taking place at 11:00 am. The panel will host key industry leaders to discuss advancement and drivers behind the global seed and crop protection industries.  

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About Evogene Ltd.

Evogene (NYSE, TASE: EVGN) is a plant genomics company, utilizing a proprietary integrated technology infrastructure to enhance seed traits underlying crop productivity. Evogene offers a complete solution for crop productivity improvement through biotechnology and advanced breeding using a unique technology infrastructure that is based on a deep scientific understanding of plant genomics and proprietary computational capabilities. The Company has strategic collaborations with world-leading agricultural companies to develop improved seed traits in relation to yield and a-biotic stress (such as tolerance to drought), and biotic stress (such as resistance to disease), in key crops as corn, soybean, wheat and rice. In addition, Evogene has earlier stage operations in agriculture chemicals and seeds for second generation feedstock for biodiesel. For more information, please visit www.evogene.com

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