The TraitMill comprises proprietary bioinformatics tools, high throughput gene
engineering systems, efficient methods for plant transformation, and a unique
set up for automated high resolution phenotypic evaluation of crop performance.
CropDesign has the ability and capacity to modulate the expression of hundreds
of genes and evaluate their effect in planta through automated screening methods.
TraitMill has been developed to work in real crops and is currently running
in a high throughput mode for rice.
With the TraitMill, CropDesign has the largest corporate program for high-throughput
agronomic trait identification in cereals. Leads identified by CropDesign in
the TraitMill are introduced into elite cereal germplasm to fast-track product
development.