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A new mutagenesis technique

During the Genomics in Business 2009 conference in Amsterdam, KeyGene announced an innovative method to achieve rapid and more precise plant breeding. The method enables the introduction of small desired alterations in the genetic material of plants, using a natural process. This process can be compared with natural mutagenesis, with the difference that a single change is induced at one specific location on the DNA.

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Davor Pisk, Chief Operating Officer, Syngenta Seeds, speaks at The World Agri Invest Congress 2009


 
Robert Berendes, Head of Global Business Development at Syngenta, speaks at Agri Vision 2009

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"Hitched to everything else in the universe" - Dependency in foods, genebanks, crop varieties, trand and food prices, and the environment

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Petersberger Thesen: Pflanzenforschung und Pflanzenzüchtung ist gesellschaftliche Verantwortung

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The Seeds of Development Programme
Observations on the current programme

Malcolm Blackie, bT Associates

In July 2006, SeedQuest published Strengthening Africa’s private seed sector to serve smallholder farmers, an article by Dr. Edward Mabaya, Cornell University, coordinator of two SME development initiatives working in Sub-Saharan Africa: the Seeds of Development Program (SODP) and the Making Markets Matter workshop.

We follow up 3 years later with an article by Malcolm Blackie, bT Associates, who recently conducted an external review of the Seeds of Development Program.

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Book excerpts

The Garden of Invention
Jane S. Smith
A wide-ranging and delightful narrative history of the celebrated plant breeder Luther Burbank and the business of farm and garden in early twentieth century America
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Video interviews

GIANT VIEWS


Karen Arthur
Research and Development Manager for Seed Protection
Valent U.S.A Corporation

 


The Magazine of the Canadian Seed Industry


Neil Arbuckle
Canola Business Development Lead
Monsanto Canada

 

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