Performance Matters...
PPI’s discovery and development pipeline is robust; our technologies are poised to become important components of crop production platforms in the 21st century.
Traits that work…traits that meet market needs
As a world-leading plant trait company, Performance Plants consistently delivers superior next generation food and bioenergy crop technologies. Our unique and powerful technology development process consistently generates proprietary plant-based technologies that can improve most plant species.
Our discovery process begins by understanding which plant traits would provide solutions for consumers, farmers and industry. Using advanced molecular screening tools, our scientists identify the specific gene modifications that produce the desired effects in laboratory plants. Modified genes typically exhibit increased or reduced levels of expression compared to the unmodified plant gene. From here, an optimized gene modification is introduced into crop species through genetic modification or advanced breeding methods so that they in turn exhibit the improved trait. Following detailed laboratory assessments, improved crop species are rigorously tested under field conditions.
From inception, the Company’s business ethic has been to work with farmers and industrial end-users first, to identify their critical needs. Our scientific research is focused on real market needs and rapid time to market.