Earth's rapidly growing human population requires ever-increasing amounts of food, feed and fuel. As a result, farmers all over the globe are struggling to grow more and increase their yields, for both human consumption and farm animal feed. Our farmers need better-performing crops. But who can take on such an important challenge?

The answer is plant breeders, working in seed companies and scientific organizations worldwide. Breeders are working intensively to find new genetic combinations of crop plants that have better yield, more resistances to harmful pests and use less water and fertilizer. This task is made more difficult by the fact that many of these important traits consist of complex genetic mechanisms, which are hard to control. To find the best-performing plant, breeders need to screen millions of individual plants grown in their experimental fields. It is a difficult task, and making the right decisions is crucial.

NRGENE is here to help breeders in their mission. NRGENE uses its cutting-edge genomic analysis tools to help the breeder with his/her decision-making process, while unraveling the genetic basis for the diverse performance of individual plants.