Our cultivation work

Armed with the new insights, we can select plants better and recombine them more accurately. We check the success of a crossing with the assistance of molecular markers. This is followed by several generations of backcrossing by labor-intensive manual castration and pollination. We then select suitable plants and plant lines according to desired breeding objectives.

Biotechnological processes in the context of plant breeding

The requirements that our customers place on our varieties have increased steadily in recent years. Resistance breeding against diseases and pests has assumed an increasingly significance within classical breeding objectives over the past years.

To meet the requirements, our variety candidates are tested for several years at different sites for their yield performance. The testing sites represent the potential area of future use of the varieties and reflect a wide range of climate and soil types. This enables us to secure reliably high yields even under variable climatic conditions. Only then our variety candidates are registered by our customers with the competent regional authorities for testing and awarding of plant variety protection. Overall, it takes several years from source crossing to the time when a variety is ultimately approved.