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Essential KPIs to Unveil Product Development Success in Seed Industry

Tristan Duminil

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April 5, 2024

5 min

Discover essential KPIs for seed industry product development success in our latest blog. Learn how quantifiable metrics drive growth and efficiency, ensuring sustainable market leadership. Download our e-book for expert insights and revolutionize your approach today!

3 Steps to standardize processes in agriculture research

Romain Royer

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February 13, 2024

2 min

Standardize processes to empower accurate and reliable data! Standards in agriculture research allow to compare data across experiments, leveraging the efforts of gathering data from testing fields. In agriculture research, standard processes ensure centralizing information and adopting a coherent system to facilitate decision-making and improve efficiency.

Uncovering the Top Seed Companies

Romain Royer

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February 8, 2024

2 min

What is the greatest seed company? What seed companies rank in the top10? With a global market value of $66.85 billion in 2023, seeds play a crucial role in generating new plants. Learn more on the brands at the forefront of innovation.

Varieties For Agro-Ecology

Chaïma C.

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September 27, 2023

2 min

Genetic improvement and varietal creation are central to the evolution of cropping systems and will continue to be so if the agro-ecological transition is to succeed. Learn more on how plant breeders select eco-friendly varieties, their role in the farming eco-system and the impact of genetics on biodiversity, soil health and limiting the use of intrants.

Seed market trends and news 2023

Laure Gry

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January 27, 2023

10 min

Seed companies are fully committed to increase crop productivity, in particular through improved varieties and technological progress. This is reflected in the growth of the sector and the surge in international trade, both in volume and value. In 2020, more than 4 million tons of seeds were traded. And since 2000, the global seed market is estimated to have tripled to nearly $60 billion.

Plant breeding software benefits for Biostadt researchers

Romain Royer

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January 20, 2023

2 min

Dr Warathe, Head R&D: “Doriane helps the breeder retrieve the data easily, so we know each generation data, over a single platform. We can easily track each and every pedigree over several years and seasons, and analyze the data to take decisions.”

Integrating cross-functional collaboration to your R&D

Romain Royer

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November 9, 2022

5 min

What makes all the actors of a research department work efficiently together? How breeders, biotechnicians and field testers share data and collaborate? Nowadays, IT systems connect people together and help them share data in real time. Many strategies can enhance interactions within the R&D team, on top of them making the research software evolve to that end. But such a change involves human, technical and financial investments at the start, plus future maintenance costs. How to benefit from the return on investment of a cross-funtional Information System ?

Sustainable seed company: Agri-Obtentions

Laure Gry

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November 8, 2022

10 min

Since 1983, Agri Obtentions' seed programs have been guided by the challenges of agro-ecology, a diversified agriculture that is more respectful of the environment. The objective is to obtain high-performance varieties that reduce or dispense with chemical inputs and meet the diverse expectations of producers and consumers. The line has been drawn: for a sustainable agriculture and a healthy future, we must experiment!

Automation in the laboratory

Romain Royer

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August 11, 2022

10 min

Build bridges between the lab and other research activities, through laboratory automation in a collaborative system that centralizes and standardizes all the data exchanges. Let’s see 3 examples of processes where exchanges of information can be enhanced by laboratory automation. Feed sample lists, generate result files in a standardized format, and improve communication workflow between laboratory technicians and breeders.

Food Industry R&D software

Romain Royer

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June 9, 2022

5 min

Bread, Chocolate, Coffee, Wine, Beer... Quite a few foods are make of a raw crop that gets processed through several steps into a final product!

What is collective intelligence ?

Romain Royer

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March 22, 2022

10 min

Collective intelligence makes its way to research departments, enhancing creativity and motivation 💡. Today an experienced trainer reveals you 7 tips to set up a climate of confidence that boosts innovation within a research team 💪.

Define germplasm in plant breeding

Romain Royer

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January 5, 2022

5 min

In plant breeding, the term 'germplasm' refers to the genetic material that is used to produce new plants. Plant breeders use different types of germplasm to develop new varieties of crops. Learn more on the best practices to secure and valorize germplasm in your seed R&D department !

Share Research Work

Romain Royer

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January 5, 2022

5 min

How to share breeding data and processes efficiently throughout the research department ?