Maximising the value of commercial forage grass seed production

最大化商业饲草种子生产的价值

• 批准号: 103943
• 金额: $ 66.53万
• 依托单位: OPENFOLDE LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=103943
• 关键词: Maximising; value; commercial; forage; grass

Germinal Holdings Ltd (GHL) have built a reputation on delivering to market quality forage crops which meet the needs of livestock and dairy farmers in the quest for environmentally sustainable intensification of production and profit from their farms. GHL varieties are the products of cutting edge innovation in forage science for the benefit of the livestcock industry. Seed yield of the varieties is a major factor on the commercial success of a variety and can infleunce the economic return from the variety and its longevity as well as its potential for marketing in other countries. The focus of this project is tackling commercial seed production costs of future forage grass varieties to ensure there is a profit margin to be made from each and every product, and to build resilience and efficacy in the GHL business model. This will be achieved through the development of genomic selection (GS) capabilities for seed yield by means of a novel accelerated breeding approach (called PReSS gang) developed by IBERS, Aberystwyth University. Not only will the outcome of robust seed production have direct benefit to the company, the proof of the PReSS gang approach will halve the expected return on investment time to bring any future innovations to market.

GHL控股有限公司（GHL）在向市场提供优质饲料作物方面建立了良好的声誉，这些作物满足了畜牧业和奶农的需求，以寻求环境可持续的生产集约化和从农场中获利。GHL品种是饲料科学前沿创新的产物，有利于畜牧业。品种的种子产量是品种在商业上成功的主要因素，并且可以影响品种的经济回报、品种的寿命以及品种在其他国家的销售潜力。该项目的重点是解决未来饲草品种的商业种子生产成本，以确保每种产品都有利润，并在GHL商业模式中建立弹性和功效。这将通过由阿伯里斯特威斯大学IBERS开发的一种新的加速育种方法（称为PReSS gang）开发种子产量的基因组选择（GS）能力来实现。强大的种子生产不仅会给公司带来直接利益，而且PReSS团队方法的证明将使未来创新推向市场的预期投资回报时间减半。