Sentences with phrase «plant breeding companies»

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Like fellow Bay area start - up Geltor, Perfect Day is one of a new breed of companies in the «cellular agriculture» business — using genetically engineered yeasts that have been «programmed» to produce proteins or other ingredients found in plants or animals - on an industrial scale, without raising animals, and with less impact on the environment.

As a rule of thumb, plant breeders in both public research institutes and private companies use genetic engineering only in the following situations: 1) the gene of interest is not found within the crop gene pool, 2) if found in the gene pool, transfer will be difficult due to incompatibility and other breeding problems or 3) the transfer of the gene will take a long time as in the case of perennial crops like coconut.

The company has a fully - integrated supply chain from the breeding of proprietary stevia plant varieties, to growing and harvesting, extracting, and purifying into a wide range of stevia ingredients.

The company has a herd of 6000 breeding goats in Victoria and is in the process of securing planning approvals to establish a processing plant and other infrastructure to step up supply.

At Clif Bar, the company is tackling the yield gap by investing in plant breeding, contributing to an agriculture fund that helps provide technical assistance to educate growers and investing in infrastructure that will help reduce the distance that organic producers must transport their crops from the farm gate to the aggregator or processor, which is a significantly longer distance than for most conventional producers, Dillion said.

The space isn't only confined to pharma either, as science company DuPont also formed alliances with Lithuania's Vilnius University and Caribou Biosciences, with a specific interest in plant breeding and agricultural applications.

The big seed companies had no interest in these poor man's crops, but I knew that science could have an impact on our lives by solving these plant problems through breeding and biotechnology.»

«This is such a diverse organization, we want people who bring a different perspective and understanding, so we can expand globally,» explains Susan Bunz, human resources and corporate services vice president at Pioneer Hi - Bred, a Dupont business, the plant genetics company that ranked # 4 this year (a big leap from # 19 in 2010).

«Only a few private Chinese companies have developed major biotech and plant breeding research capacities,» he adds.

China's plant breeding research is mainly conducted in the public sector, and researchers are not always in close contact with the companies that sell and trade seeds.

Plant breeders at universities and seed companies have invested thousands of man - years in breeding crops resistant to diseases since that time.

In June 2015, Clif Bar & Company announced a plan to raise $ 10 million by 2020 to fund the nation's first endowed chairs in organic plant breeding at public universities in the United States.

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