Alliance adds to Syngenta’s toolbox of new breeding technologies enhancing its ability to address emerging disease threats
Syngenta Vegetable Seeds and Tropic have signed a collaboration to deploy Tropic’s Gene Editing induced Gene Silencing (GEiGS) technology platform.
The partnership will explore opportunities to leverage this innovative technology to further strengthen Syngenta’s diverse vegetable portfolio offering for growers around the world.
“As a world leader in vegetable seed innovation, we’re always evaluating the latest technologies and tools inside and outside Syngenta that can help us deliver better products to growers. We’re excited to partner with pioneering industry players like Tropic on a venture that aims at developing sustainable crop products to tackle current and future threats that farmers face in the field or greenhouse,” said Uri Krieger, global head of R&D for Syngenta Vegetable Seeds & Flowers.
This alliance will build on Syngenta’s toolbox of new breeding technologies and Tropic’s game-changing GEiGS platform to provide a rapid response tool against newly emerging disease threats which are becoming more prevalent with climate change.
“Tropic’s GEiGS technology, which combines elements of precision gene editing and gene silencing or RNAi, is a hugely valuable platform that allows us and other seed companies to develop more resilient, disease-resistant crop varieties that are easier to cultivate, more profitable for farmers and healthier for consumers – thereby benefitting the global food supply chain,” said Jack Peart, chief development officer at Tropic.
Tropic is a tropical seeds company dedicated to the development of healthier, more robust, high-performing varieties of staple crops. Tropic utilises its proprietary GEiGS platform and other cutting-edge gene editing technologies to develop improved crops with increased disease resistance, higher yields, and environmentally sustainable traits. These include non-browning bananas longer shelf-life.
