home news forum careers events suppliers solutions markets expos directories catalogs resources advertise contacts
 
News Page

The news
and
beyond the news
Index of news sources
All Africa Asia/Pacific Europe Latin America Middle East North America
  Topics
  Species
Archives
News archive 1997-2008
 

Plant Bioscience enters into crop development partnerships to develop sweet sorghum as a strategic bioenergy crop in China


Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom
July 2010

PBL has entered into agreements with the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOB-CAS), and with the Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences (JAAS). IOB-CAS has established a new Centre for Bioenergy which will develop sweet sorghum as a strategic bioenergy crop for China, while JAAS is the national centre for maize transformation and has a long track record of breeding and delivering maize and sorghum varieties for the Chinese market. Under the agreements, IOB-CAS and JAAS will introduce new plant biotechnologies from PBL into maize and sweet sorghum, bring to field testing and ultimately develop new varieties suitable for commercial release in China.

Dr Jan Chojecki, PBL’s MD, said “These partnerships represent an excellent mechanism for us to rapidly test in field situations the early stage discoveries emerging from public research in plant science. This is highly complementary to our existing technology transfer activities and as well as leading to new varieties for use in China, it will enable better and earlier datasets to inform commercial uptake decisions elsewhere in the world”.



More news from: PBL - Plant Bioscience Ltd.


Website: http://www.pbltechnology.com

Published: July 8, 2010

The news item on this page is copyright by the organization where it originated
Fair use notice

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

  Archive of the news section


Copyright @ 1992-2024 SeedQuest - All rights reserved