Pipeline
Syngenta Biotech Crop Pipeline
Syngenta is a global leader in agriculture and is committed to developing safe and effective crop products based on innovative research and technology.
Researchers at Syngenta and its partners use a combination of technologies - genetic modification, as well as conventional breeding, and marker assisted
breeding to develop plants that could further increase yields, make industrial processes cleaner and more efficient, offer better nutrition, provide healthier
food for consumers and create improved industrial processes. The result is a broad commercial portfolio and an expanding pipeline for both established and
emerging areas of business.
Syngenta develops new Seeds products through plant breeding technologies
The richness and diversity of our germplasm resources, combined with molecular breeding, has accelerated the rate of innovation in Seeds.
In Field Crops, Research and Development focuses on growers' primary aim: higher quality yield. Raising the essential nutritional components, starch, oil or
protein further improves value for food and feed, and increasingly biofuel applications. Marker-assisted breeding is helping to increase disease resistance,
enhance cooking, baking and brewing quality for processors and consumers. It is also used to improve plants' agronomic properties such as size and germination.
In Vegetable Seeds, Syngenta develops new products to provide consumers with consistent high quality, improved appearance, taste and texture. Powerful analytical
science has been expanding knowledge of taste, flavor and nutrition. Combined with advanced breeding technology, this is accelerating the introduction of novel
varieties.
In Flowers, Syngenta breeding programs offer gardeners and consumers an exciting flow of richer, more vibrant colors, better flowering and longer visual attraction,
as well as providing growers and retailers with ever improving convenience.
For customers, this means a greater choice of improved crop varieties and hybrids, with hundreds of new Seeds products launched each year.
Biotech input traits enhance the germplasm porfolio
Input traits, which control crop pests and provide herbicide tolerance, continue to gain importance, especially in corn and soybeans in the USA and Latin America.
Syngenta now offers corn resistance to leaf and soil insects and is on track to deliver a full suite of stacked traits in corn, building on the quality and breadth
of its germplasm from the combination of GARSTŪ, GOLDEN HARVESTŪ and NKŪ.
Biotech output traits add value for customers and consumers
While input traits such as insect resistance provide important benefits for the grower, output traits add value for processors and ultimately consumers.
A major use of corn is for animal feed, and more recently for ethanol production. Traits that bring benefits in these applications are expected to provide new
value creation in the future. Syngenta has products in development in both areas.
