German Companies Products Services News Contact research Armed for the future The consequences of climate change and food security for a rapidly growing world population require new plant breeding solutions. In order to be able to deliver such solutions as quickly as possible and to always be up to date, plant breeders invest an above-average amount in the research and development of particularly high-performance varieties. The industry in Germany invests more than 15% of its sales in research and development and is therefore a cutting-edge technology. The breeders all have a network of research and breeding stations in Europe and in some cases on the other continents of the world. The partners of the German Seed Alliance also work very closely with one another on research issues. Their goal is to achieve synergy effects through the cooperation so that they can offer their customers high-quality varieties that are optimally adapted to future conditions at the earliest possible point in time. Long-term foresight is essential for company researchers. Because breeding results are often only visible after years, quick successes in this branch are not to be expected. Researchers must therefore already be able to formulate and work out what agriculture and the population will need in ten or twenty years. The employees of the GSA and its shareholders exchange and coordinate their research activities. In their work, they use methods for identifying the plant genome in order to then specifically process it in breeding. In addition, they develop modern methods for assessing the progeny plants in terms of their expression. Ultimately, the best combination of the genetics of the plant should be found under the respective environmental conditions of the cultivation area: the employees conduct research centrally and breed locally. Companies Company profile Shareholders Sales partners Employees Careers Products Oilseed rape Potatoes Grains Legumes Sunflowers Corn Grasses Other crops Services Research Breeding Consulting Production Logistics News Company Product Innovations Events Media Our distribution partners © 2018 German Seed Alliance GmbH Imprint Sitemap Data protection