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Creating value through unique plant opportunities.

  • Development and licensing of plant varieties, grass endophytes and plant genes.
  • Collaborative research and project management of plant technologies.
  • Production and sale of high quality early generation seedstock.
  • Protection of intellectual property through patents, trade marks and plant variety rights.

key technologies and capabilities

  • Grasslanz Technology forage cultivars sold internationally.
  • MaxQ® grass endophyte sold in the USA.
  • AR1 and MaxP® grass endophyte sold in Australasia.
  • International seed company partners.
  • International plant breeding programme.
  • Plant and microbial genomics programme.
  • No.1 market position worldwide in proprietary white clover.
  • No.1 market position worldwide in proprietary grass endophytes.
  • High quality seed production in New Zealand

Grasslanz Technology forage cultivars

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Novel endophyte technologies

Endophyte developments have been a major focus for Grasslanz Technology in recent years. Research undertaken by AgResearch (Grasslanz Technology’s parent company) in the endophyte area is world leading, and the technology has provided millions of dollars benefit to New Zealand primary industries since the release of the novel endophyte AR1 in 2000. The research for the development of AR1 was a major team effort by mycologists, chemist, agronomists, entomologists and plant breeders. Research into the identification, understanding, testing and commercialisation of an endophyte strain takes the best part of 20 years... More information on novel endophyte technologies »

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Products & services
Collaborative research and project
management of plant technologies.
Development and licensing of plant varieties, grass endophytes and plant genes.
Protection of intellectual property through patents, trade marks and plant variety rights.
Production and sale of high quality early generation seedstock.
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Key successes

Grasslands Kopu II and Crusader: New generation white clovers

Two recently released white clover cultivars, Grasslands Kopu II and Crusader, were compared with existing cultivars for at least 3 years in each of five field trials under rotational grazing by either dairy cows or sheep in the Waikato and Manawatu... Read full article »

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Latest news

AR37 endophyte research - project comes to a close
Overall conclusions: AR37 ryegrass was clearly more persistent than either AR1 or Standard (HE) ryegrass. This supports findings from previous work... Read full article »

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