The Centre for BioSystem Genomics (CBSG)

CBSG was a consortium companies and research institutes that worked on genome sequencing, primarily of potato and tomato, leading to publications in Nature. These facts leads to rapid advancements in genome technologies that permitted the sequencing of 150 tomato genomes at WUR facilities in a few months. Dutch breeding companies partner with Wageningen University & Research for genomic projects at the pre-competitive stage enabling all companies to benefit from genome data generation, annotation and mining. The WUR research valorisation in plant genomics is outstanding; this can reduce the breeding time for a new variety by 30-40%, and save 5 to 25% of the economic costs of breeding programmes.

Companies such as Syngenta, KeyGene, RijkZwaan, or Enza Seeds engage in such projects together with WUR, and this should ultimately lead to more and better crop varieties. Public-private partnerships are flourishing and helping us advance more rapidly towards a revolution in plant breeding.

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