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Creating value through unique plant opportunities.

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Novel endophyte technologies
Harvesting and sowing seeds are activities as old as civilisation. Innovative products and technologies add value to these ancient practices, and bring new opportunities to New Zealand livestock farmers... More information »

Ryegrass endophyte options
AR37, Endo5, AR1... More information »

MaxQ development
Tall fescue, grown on more than 35 million acres (the "tall fescue belt"), is the most widely spread pasture grass in the humid areas of the eastern USA (Stuedemann & Hoveland, 1988)... More information »

AR37 Endophyte
The most recent novel endophyte, AR37 does not contain the alkaloid compounds of lolitrem B, peramine, or ergovaline, but does have a unique set of compounds called epoxy-janthitrems... More information »

Leadership in endophyte technology
Taking endophytes from discovery to on-farm use... More information »

Establishment and management of novel endophyte ryegrass pastures
To start with a clean paddock free of any growing perennial ryegrass and free of any existing ryegrass seed. This will generally mean elimination ryegrass from the old pastures between November and Autumn sowing... More information »

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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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