technology

Breeding-programme outsourcing

Engaging a third-party facility or service provider — rather than building in-house infrastructure — to run generation-advancement, transformation or phenotyping steps of a crop breeding programme.

Where it's used

Speed-breeding & seed services
A horizontal infrastructure-and-service layer — turnkey speed-breeding rooms (Urban Crop Solutions), customizable research grow chambers (AmplifiedAg), farmer-accessible acceleration systems (Sheel Biotech) and contract plant-transformation labs (Solis AgroSciences) — sells the generation-advancement capacity that any breeding programme needs, so smaller seed companies and public breeders can rent the same 6-7-generations-per-year acceleration that large ag-biotech majors build in-house.
crop-biotech 7 min