New Crops for the Future: Disruptive AgroFood Innovations by KeyGene

Date: Monday, January 11, 2016
Time: 1:40 PM
Room: Royal Palm Salon 5-6
Arjen van Tunen , KeyGene, Wageningen, Netherlands
In order to meet the demands for agricultural products in 2020 the amount of production has to double. KeyGene has developed a number of crop innovations that will help to reach this goal. A breakthrough that, amongst others, will be discussed is the identification and cloning of the world’s first apomixis gene (DIP) that will ultimately help to sharply accelerate development and production of new crop varieties.