Corn is globally the number one crop in terms of production volume (over 600 Mio tons). It is by far the largest seed market and by itself represents over two thirds of the gross margin in the 10 Bio USD field crop seed market.
The corn seed market has always been driven by productivity and there are historic precedents of substantial price premium payments for the highest yielding corn hybrids. Therefore, CropDesign's yield-enhancement traits are in high demand by the corn seed industry.
CropDesign has set up in-house an efficient corn transformation pipeline. In addition, CropDesign has established a collaboration with BASF Plant Science on the development of corn products based on some of the most promising leads discovered in the TraitMill™.
