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Essential KPIs to Unveil Product Development Success in Seed Industry

Tristan Duminil

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April 18, 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!

Design Game-Changing User Interface for Agronomy Software

Jackie V

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April 18, 2024

2 min

Unlock the secrets of agronomy software design in our latest blog. Learn how UX/UI principles enhance productivity and streamline workflows for agronomists. Dive into expert tips on research, accessibility, and collaboration. Revolutionize your software design today!

Find a market for your varieties and develop varieties for your markets

Tristan Duminil

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April 17, 2024

5 min

🌱 🎯 Unlock seed industry success: Find & develop varieties for your markets. Dive into expert insights on market analysis, variety development, and consumer engagement.

New genomic techniques approved in EU

Laure Gry

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February 13, 2024

5 min

What are these new genomic techniques ? Which ones have been approved in Europe ? Read the latest update on the deregulation, meet the two women who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry, and understand how new genomic techniques change the DNA of plants.

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.

12 Books on Plant Breeding: Classics, moderns and fun !

Chaïma C.

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July 25, 2023

10 min

Bernardo, Fehr, Acquaah, Falconer, Allard, BD Singh... Plant breeding literature abounds and I found it hard to make a choice for this summer's readings. I have asked my agronomist colleagues: got some ideas, still not much inspired... Then we've asked our LinkedIn community and Wow! more than 150 plant breeders from all over the world have suggested their own favorite readings - If you've replied, thanks a lot! Then if you're still looking for what to read before your holiday siestas, check our review about the 10 most useful plant breeding books.

AI in agriculture research

Romain Royer

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May 30, 2023

5 min

Artificial intelligence changes the game in agriculture research: A neural network can tell whether a plot is “Well” or “less” adapted to a breeding objective. And it guesses an expert’s analysis with 95% accuracy! Learn how the AI researcher Rony Charles has trained the model on a huge dataset of phenomics, soil and weather data from a multi-environment Hybrid Corn trial.

How Bumblebees support sustainable agriculture?

Romain Royer

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May 15, 2023

5 min

Did you know Bumblebees 🐝 detect the chemical signature of stress tolerant plants 💪🌱? What a windfall for sustainable agriculture: Pollinators can help select varieties adapted to low input farming, and create crops that produce more with less! I’m not saying it’s easy to count how many times a plant gets her flowers visited – far from easy in fact 😅 That’s why European experts (European Innovation Council EIC) founded the collaborative project DARkWIN, started in 2023 for 3,5 years.

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.”

Vegetable breeding at Gautier Semences

Romain Royer

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December 21, 2022

5 min

Doriane supports field crops & vegetable breeding organizations in their everyday management. Check how RnDExp™ helps Gautier Semences vegetable breeders.

Variety testing software at CTIFL technical institute

Romain Royer

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December 20, 2022

5 min

The interview of the CTIFL, Inter-professional Technical Center for Fruits and Vegetables, about our variety testing software.‍

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 ?

Agronomist tools

Romain Royer

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November 9, 2022

2 min

Agronomists handle high amount of heterogeneous data and must take accurate decisions fastly. They use specific tools to store, query, analyze and report their research data. Digital tools secure and valorize vegetal R&D information but require some standardization. How to stay creative and innovative with a research software?

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!

Marionnet Label Berry breeding

Romain Royer

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May 4, 2022

10 min

"The prodigious statistical tools of the RnDExp software allows us to study so many varieties, on so many parameters. Between our Excel tables of yesterday and the RnDExp software of today, there is a gap of 20 years" Laurent Chausset, R&D director, Marionnet

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 💪.

Research software quality standards

Romain Royer

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March 8, 2022

5 min

When you choose a plant research software, you’d better double-check its quality, since it’s a cornerstone of your activity: Then how can you make sure about the quality of a software?

Why collect plant data with a scoring app ?

Romain Royer

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February 9, 2022

10 min

To characterize plant phenotype, you observe its development and take notations in the field. You may use pen and paper or a tablet, what matters is how much energy you need to get useful results. There are 3 main ways to score plant traits...

Climate-Smart Plant Breeding Objectives

Magloire Oteyami

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January 26, 2022

5 min

What are the key traits to study for precise breeding and rapid adoption of climate-smart varieties? To which breeding objectives a variety program must respond?

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 !

How useful are PCA statistics for Agronomy?

Magloire Oteyami

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January 5, 2022

10 min

How can I compare yield, flowering date, and drought tolerance at the same time? How to draw some conclusions from all these variables? what to do to explore the links between traits and visualize properly the similarities between individuals or treatments?

Agronomy Research Software

Romain Royer

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January 5, 2022

10 min

In agronomy research, you study material in several modalities, with multiple factors and under specific environments. And if you are reading these lines, you wonder what tools can help you deal with all these conditions, make the most of your resources and reach your research objectives, right?

Plant Breeding Software

Romain Royer

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January 5, 2022

5 min

How the plant breeding software satisfies every user's needs, and enables the whole research department to work together securely and efficiently ?

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 ?

What makes research software user-friendly?

Romain Royer

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December 8, 2021

10 min

How much energy do you spend on your research software, rather than study your material and focus on decisions to make? How user-friendly is your research software ?

Why host agronomy software in the cloud?

Romain Royer

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December 8, 2021

5 min

Why more and more research departments host their agronomy software in the cloud?

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