www.checkbiotech.org ; www.raupp.info ; www.czu.cz

New technology from Plant Bioscience - Prof Ian Bancroft and colleagues at
The John Innes Centre, UK (JIC) have developed a revolutionary new method to
predict heterosis. The method can be used to accurately predict hybrid
vigour for a range of important crop performance traits, including yield,
January 2007.

Accurate predictions of field performance of hybrids can be made from
transcriptome analysis of samples taken from parental seedlings grown in the
laboratory.

Plant Bioscience Ltd. (PBL), the technology transfer company of the JIC, has
funded the further development of this method, extending from the original
work in Arabidopsis, to prove that the technology also works accurately in
maize.

PBL is now offering licences to the seed and plant breeding industry to use
this technology to assist the breeding and development of a wide range of
crops, worldwide.

Various possibilities can also be arranged with PBL and the JIC to allow
companies to evaluate the methods on their own germplasm. "

For further information:
[www.seedquest.com]

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