What kinds of contract plant breeding does GardenGenetics do? "Rough" breeding

Effective use of internal resources should always be part of your management discussions.  How can you develop more varieties?  How can you do this even faster?  How can you enable your breeding staff to be more productive?  In the current global economy, part of that answer needs to be outsourcing.  Unless you have unlimited internal resources, it is almost always more cost-effective to outsource the routine or repetitive portions of any project, and keep the creative tasks for your internal staff.  G2 is pleased to be able to bring outsourced contract breeding resources to the horticultural industries. 

Off-cycle seed increase:  Are you doing most of your generation advancement in the field each year?  Let G2 provide you with an additional generation each year by doing a cycle of seed increase in our greenhouses over the winter.  We can self or mass to your specifications, with or without data collection. 

Experimental hybrid production:  Do you need a few hundred seeds of each of dozens to hundreds of experimental crosses?  We may be able to help.  Send us your inbreds-in-development, and we can use our excess capacity to make your experimental hybrids for you.  And at the same time, of course, we could do an additional round of inbreeding in parallel.  No, we may not always have capacity available, but when we do, we would be pleased to make it available to you.   

Germplasm integration:  Consider working with G2 to Integrate new germplasm into your program's background.  No breeder likes to incorporate new germplasm into his or her program --- it is slow, expensive, and boring.  But every breeding program needs new blood if it is to continue to make genetic progress.  Why not outsource some of these germplasm enhancement needs to G2?  We can do the rough breeding, integrating new germplasm into your existing program, and then returning the lines to you with the new genetics incorporatedand ready for finish breeding and final selection.   

Demonstration of concept:  Have you ever wished that you had a mechanism to take that wild idea, regardless of where it came from, and just ... try it?  We encourage you to consider working with G2 on those "demonstration of concept" projects.  Let us attempt to develop your idea to a prototype stage, and then return the advanced germplasm to you for finish breeding.  Consider interspecific hybridizations, for example.  These are frequently possible, but with a very low rate of success.  Why burn your internal resources on these highly experimental projects?  Send them to us, and use G2's experience with making these kinds of wide crosses to determine if your idea might be feasible.  At worst, we fail.  At best, you know whether or not your wild idea can become a new product --- and have a very good idea as to the time and resources required to turn that idea into a product.