FertiSeeds' strength is in its competitive advantages
FertiSeeds offers a universal technology. The technology is applicable to many major agricultural crops thus enabling hybridization of heretofore self-pollinated crops. FertiSeeds technology opens up opportunities to hybridize major agricultural crops that have previously been subject to various hybridization barriers.
The technology offers male sterility in one of the parental lines and full fertility in the F1 hybrid generation. It ensures full male sterility in the parental line and fertility is restored through natural segregation of the male sterility components. – the significance of this is that there is no need for restorer genes.
Therefore the pollen donor can be any variety of choice or superior combiner - this provides extra versatility in breeding and rapid product-to-market is enabled.
The natural segregation of the trait components also provides intellectual property protection for germplasm and traits of other technology providers and for FertiSeeds' technology itself.
The reversible male sterile trait mechanism based on two interactive components is inactivated naturally by the segregation of these components into different progeny. This extremely elegant and simple biosafety mechanism prevents migration of the active trait to wild species, thus eliminating environmental impact and ensuring environmental friendliness.
The FertiSeeds technology package overcomes the traditional hybrid production obstacles by integrating new transgenic pest management practices with bee pollination methods whenever possible.
FertiSeeds technology will make hybridization the strategy of choice for a broad crop improvement program by overcoming present physical and economic barriers to seed production.
FertiSeeds offers a universal technology. The technology is applicable to many major agricultural crops thus enabling hybridization of heretofore self-pollinated crops. FertiSeeds technology opens up opportunities to hybridize major agricultural crops that have previously been subject to various hybridization barriers.
The technology offers male sterility in one of the parental lines and full fertility in the F1 hybrid generation. It ensures full male sterility in the parental line and fertility is restored through natural segregation of the male sterility components. – the significance of this is that there is no need for restorer genes.
Therefore the pollen donor can be any variety of choice or superior combiner - this provides extra versatility in breeding and rapid product-to-market is enabled.
The natural segregation of the trait components also provides intellectual property protection for germplasm and traits of other technology providers and for FertiSeeds' technology itself.
The reversible male sterile trait mechanism based on two interactive components is inactivated naturally by the segregation of these components into different progeny. This extremely elegant and simple biosafety mechanism prevents migration of the active trait to wild species, thus eliminating environmental impact and ensuring environmental friendliness.
The FertiSeeds technology package overcomes the traditional hybrid production obstacles by integrating new transgenic pest management practices with bee pollination methods whenever possible.
FertiSeeds technology will make hybridization the strategy of choice for a broad crop improvement program by overcoming present physical and economic barriers to seed production.