Understanding the Science
Creating value through unique plant opportunities.
Harvesting and sowing seeds are activities as old as civilisation. Innovative products and technologies add value to these ancient practices, and bring new opportunities to New Zealand livestock farmers.
Tall fescue, grown on more than 35 million acres (the "tall fescue belt"), is the most widely spread pasture grass in the humid areas of the eastern USA (Stuedemann & Hoveland, 1988)..
The most recent novel endophyte, AR37 does not contain the alkaloid compounds of lolitrem B, peramine, or ergovaline, but does have a unique set of compounds called epoxy-janthitrems...
To start with a clean paddock free of any growing perennial ryegrass and free of any existing ryegrass seed. This will generally mean elimination ryegrass from the old pastures between November and Autumn sowing...
Products & services
- Collaborative research and project management of plant technologies.
- Development and licensing of plant varieties, grass endophytes and plant genes.
- Protection of intellectual property through patents, trade marks and plant variety rights.
- Production and sale of high quality early generation seedstock.
Key successes
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Avanex
A natural fungus (endophyte) that lives in grass and produces chemicals that make birds feel sick when ingested, but does not harm them.
Latest news
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Fieldays interview - Gene editing and GM technologies
The following link is to a discussion on gene editing and GM technologies and the choice facing New Zealand in how these opportunities should be regulated so that benefits and risk can be balanced for improved environmental and economic outcomes. Fieldays interview - Gene editing and GM...
