Performance Plants has a talented team of renowned scientists with a wide array of expertise, working to bring the
benefits of plant biotechnology to society.
To address other micronutrient deficiencies, researchers in the
Laboratory of Plant Biotechnology of Professor Gruissem at ETH Zurich and in other countries also developed rice varieties with increased iron levels in the rice and wheat grains, for example.
Research led by Graham Seymour,
Professor of Plant Biotechnology in the School of Biosciences at The University of Nottingham, has identified a gene that encodes an enzyme which plays a crucial role in controlling softening of the tomato fruit.
The
advent of plant biotechnology was hailed as the engine of a Second Green Revolution, capable of providing farmers with the hardier, higher - yielding, disease - resistant and more nutritious crops needed to sustain a burgeoning world population.
«It is a good arrangement,» says Moloney, «as there is still lots of fundamental science to be done: work that will provide the next
generation of plant biotechnology, and even other new companies in western Canada.»
Now a group led by Navreet Bhullar, senior scientist in the Laboratory
of Plant Biotechnology at ETH Zurich, report a success in creating a multi-nutrient rice.
A very important point is made in a contribution to the European report from Marc Van Montagu, the chairman of the
Institute of Plant Biotechnology for Developing Countries at Ghent University in Belgium:
The theme of the meeting is «From our roots in vitro to the future
of plant biotechnology» and we are inviting experts on a range of plant biotechnology topics, including the fields of in vitro biology, gene editing, synthetic biology, epigenetics and molecular farming to give keynote addresses.