EDEN's® Messenger® technology in anchored in innate plant mechanisms and is designed to focus on the activation of plant mechanisms that then stimulate the plant to manage its own growth and health, to improve yields, plant vigor, growth and environmental stress tolerance. The defense systems of the plant itself can be activated to protect against a broad range of diseases and certain insects - offering the advantages of modern biotechnology without altering plant DNA or the necessity to genetically engineer seed. In addition, Messenger technology provides a safer method to significantly reduce the amount and need for many traditional chemical pesticides. In June 1009 the firm filed its articles of dissolution with the Washington Secretary of States office. The troubled Woodinville agricultural biotech company (NASDAQ: EDEN), which had made plant treatment products for home and garden, said its notified the NASDAQ stock market of its intent to delist and deregister its stock from the exchange. In 2007, the company sold a substantial portion of its assets to Plant Health Care Inc. of Pittsburgh for $2.2 million.
