KeyGene’s accelerated molecular breeding platform: the first decade of a sequence-based revolution

Since the introduction of the first Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) platforms in 2004/2005 it has been KeyGene’s vision that molecular crop breeding would transition to sequence-based detection. During this decade, it has been our mission to develop and apply (proprietary) NGS applications to turn this vision of a Sequence-Based Revolution into reality.

I will present the current state of the art of Keygene’s proprietary NGS products, including Sequence-based Genotyping (SBG), Keygene^® SNPSelect, Whole Genome Profiling (WGP^TM) and Targeted Re-sequencing, illustrated with examples in the 6F (Food, Feed, Fiber, Fuel, Flowers and Fun) crops.

Keygene N.V. owns patents and patent applications protecting its SBG, KeyGene^® SNPSelect, WGP^TM and Targeted Resequencing technologies. KeyGene is a registered trademark of Keygene N.V.